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After Effects
Command Frame
The command layer After Effects never had. Search for and run effects, scripts, layers, toolbars, presets, plugin actions, and more from one floating interface. Type, chain, and shortcut anything.
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Description
The command layer After Effects never had.
No more stopping mid-flow to dig through menus, panels, and ancient forum posts for the command you need.
The Problem
After Effects is the most powerful application in motion design. Using it at speed requires mastery of its panels, menus and quirks.
You know exactly what you want to do. Getting there is another matter. The effect you need is three menus deep. The script you want isn't bound to anything. Layer search collapses every property. Changing keyframes in a busy comp means stopping, scrolling and hunting - for every layer, every time. Plugin features live in isolated UIs. Adobe's shortcut system handles built-in commands reasonably well and little else.
Inconveniences individually. Together, across a working day, they are a constant tax on your attention.
Command Frame consolidates much of After Effects' interface into a freely summonable floating search-and-command bar. Summon it, type your intent, and execute - effects, presets, layer commands, scripts, plugin actions, and more.
Command Frame. Now on Stream Deck.
Some commands deserve a real button. Any action in Command Frame can now be assigned to the Stream Deck for instant access.
Keys that respond to your project. Icons dim when their commands don't apply and update as your selection, composition, and project change. See what's available before you press.
Direct After Effects integration. Command Frame connects through the After Effects SDK to trigger commands directly, without relying on simulated keyboard shortcuts.
Bring your tools with you. Assign individual functions from supported third-party Scripts. Import your existing toolbars; assign their launcher action, and bulk-import their buttons as Stream Deck buttons with their original artwork.
One Surface. Every Layer, Composition, and Command Searchable
True Layer Search
Adobe's layer search simply filters the composition to your desired layer while also collapsing every possible layer property structure. The tradeoff: find your layer, or keep all the keyframes, expanded properties, and shape groups you were working on visible.
Layers are presented as actions in Command Frame. Running them:
- Selects the layer
- Navigates your timeline directly to the layer
Specifying multiple layers will also additively select them. Actions, including layers, also offer autocomplete hints that save you from having to write out its full name.
Compositions
Compositions appear as actions; running a composition action will open it directly, removing the tedium of navigating busy project panels and nested folders.
Effects and Presets
Command Frame handles fast effect and preset application as a first-class use case with fast fuzzy search, instant filtering, abbreviation support, and search intelligence designed to exceed the speed of dedicated effect launchers such as Quick Apply.
Applying an effect or preset without a layer selection will create an appropriate layer first. The default layer type is freely customisable.
Layer Commands and Property Setting
Type to set layer properties directly. Available property commands include opacity, scale, rotation, position, anchor point, and orientation, each supporting values, relative operations (such as
*2 or /5), and whether to create a keyframe.
Multi-value property commands also support mixed absolute and relative values. position 130 +0 +0
sets the X position to an absolute value while leaving Y and Z unchanged - useful for adjustments where only one axis needs a specific value.
opacity 50
scale kf 120
rotation -15
Layer Operations
Rename, duplicate, delete, shift, parent and unparent, create nulls, shapes, solids, text layers, adjustment layers, set Alpha/Luma track matte variants by selection order, and clear track mattes.
Layer selections also extend to label colour (e.g.,
select label red, select label sandstone) and to layer type: cameras, lights, text layers, shape layers, nulls, solids, footage, and pre-comps.
AE Menu Commands
A broad surface of After Effects menu commands are searchable through Command Frame. Commands you would normally scan menus to find become instantly retrievable.
Installed Extensions and Panels
Installed extensions and ScriptUI Panels are also searchable, and running them opens the panel immediately.
Scripts
Scripts can be manually installed or automatically imported from watch folders and After Effects’ script directories.
Workspaces
Each workspace you have already created in After Effects is exposed as an action. Search and switch between them instantly.
Screenshots
Copy Screenshot to Clipboard, Save Screenshot, Save Screenshot and Reveal - Command Frame's own screenshot actions, which can be configured in Settings to optionally preserve the composition's alpha
channel.
EaseCopy is owned by Mike Overbeck. Command Frame is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Mike Overbeck or EaseCopy.
Configurable Multi-Step Commands
Command Frame does not stop at launching a single action. It can execute multiple configurable actions at once: chain them, save them.
A few examples of possible multi-step commands include:
Center anchor & center layer
An ideal multi-step command to align a layer absolutely in the middle of the composition view.
set work area to selected layers & trim comp to work area
A quick macro to set the work area and trim the composition from a given layer selection.
Select nth 2 &
shift each descending 12f
Select every other layer, and stagger the layers in the composition by 12 frames each.
Arrow layer & time
00:13:23 & rotation
key 50 & time +30
& rotation +120 &
select all visible keyframes & easy ease
Animate a layer's rotation property end-to-end in Command Frame without interacting with the timeline panel, including scrubbing the timeline and selecting the layer.
duplicate & shift
12f & rename suffix
_echo & opacity
/2
A fast echo builder: duplicate selected layers, offset them 12 frames, suffix their names, and halve their opacity using a relative value change.
Works Across Your After Effects Toolkit
Command Frame can automatically surface actions from compatible third-party tools, including 218 recognised actions across 30 scripts. Imported toolbars' individual buttons also become actions, keeping your existing scripts, plugins and extensions accessible from the same interface.
Each action becomes searchable, assignable to keyboard shortcuts, and usable in multi-step queries, letting you combine and build reusable commands without switching panels.
“Show Me” Tutorials
Command Frame's embedded tutorial system extends into real After Effects projects. For a growing set of supported actions, the action's detail view offers a Show Me option that launches a guided walkthrough: opening compositions, adjusting selections, moving the timeline, and demonstrating the result directly inside After Effects rather than pointing at Command Frame's own interface.
Context-Awareness
Actions that require selected layers are surfaced and enabled when layers are selected. Commands that depend on an active composition are available when a composition is open. Layer and composition names update in real time as your project evolves, ensuring searches always reflect the current project state.
The search text itself gives you live feedback as you type. You know what Command Frame understands to be valid before pressing Enter.
Shortcuts for Everything
Any action in Command Frame, a single command, a saved multi-step chain, a script, or a plugin action, can be assigned a free-form shortcut and triggered without Command Frame ever opening.
Imported toolbars can be assigned their own shortcuts; Command Frame can be summoned and used directly as a toolbar to save on panel space.
Unlock the Control Suite
Command Frame is a strong standalone tool. It becomes more powerful when other plugins interface with it directly.
Control Groups
Control Groups saves layer selections as layer folders, which can be targeted in Command Frame. Target, add to, remove from, and navigate across compositions directly to saved selections.
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add layers to group 1 -
go to layer group 2 -
overwrite layer group 3 -
remove layers from group 4 -
delete layer group 5 -
select group 6
Select Every Other Layer
Select Every Other Layer is built for precise layer targeting. Layer range selections, nth-layer patterns, add and remove selections, quick selections, and related-layer selections become some of the most useful commands available in Command Frame.
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select layers 1-12 -
deselect layers 5-25 -
select nth 2 -
quick select layers down -
quick select layers up -
select parent -
select track matte sources
Compstronaut
Compstronaut adds browser-style back and forward navigation to After Effects, making your composition and timeline history navigable from Command Frame alongside everything else.
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back -
forward -
previous comp -
next comp
Battle Axe is owned by Adam Plouff. Command Frame is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Adam Plouff or Battle Axe.
What makes Command Frame Unique?
| Feature | Command Frame | Other Launchers |
|---|---|---|
| Stream Deck support | First-class Stream Deck integration | N/A |
| Parameters | Typed values, parameter aliases, relative operations, and keyframe intent | N/A |
| Workspaces | Workspaces as actions | N/A |
| Multi-step commands | Multiple actions in one reusable query | N/A |
| Layer selections | Search, select, target, and chain layer selections | N/A |
| Composition targeting | Search, open, and navigate directly to project compositions | N/A |
| History | Full history of successful and unsuccessful queries, Shift+Up/Down for query history recall | N/A |
| Sound Effects | Assign sound effects to any action for an additional layer of feedback | N/A |
| Importable actions | Scripts, toolbars, toolbar buttons, Hook API with state and parameter support | Scripts |
| AE menu commands | Included, plus exclusive commands, expanding parameter support, and commands from After Effects' shortcut menu that are inaccessible to other plugins | Standard support |
| Search Intelligence | Advanced fuzzy search, dynamic scoring, search autocomplete hints, panel animations, text-token highlighting, abbreviation support, toast messages, tooltips, aliases, pins, and blacklist | Basic fuzzy search, basic alias support, pins, blacklist |
| Effects and presets | Full support, plus expanding parameterisation support and automatic layer-creation intelligence customisable per action | Standard support; layer-creation logic requires explicit input or settings toggles |
| Shortcuts | Launcher shortcut, free-form shortcuts for saved commands or command chains with optional panel visibility, and conflict warnings with After Effects and other plugins' shortcuts | Launcher shortcut and limited 1-10-digit hotkeys that require launcher visibility |
History and Saved Actions
Command Frame keeps a persistent execution history. Previously executed queries are surfaced and searchable, so repeating a recent operation is easy. Pressing Shift+Up/Down lets you
conveniently recall past queries directly in the search field.
Any previously executed query can be promoted and saved, given a shortcut, pinned, and even assigned aliases.
Customisation
Command Frame is configurable at a depth that most tools don't expose; its appearance, sounds, feedback, panel summoning, and search behaviours can be finely tuned.
Audio-Visual Feedback
Command Frame can surface action results as notification toasts (read: temporary global popups) near your cursor, at the current mouse position, or at a fixed screen location you set - visible even when the panel is closed. Each feedback type, success, warning, and error, can be toggled independently.
Bundled sounds play on panel open, successful action completion, and warnings. Each action can be assigned a custom sound in its detail view to play on completion. Volume is controlled globally, or sounds can be disabled entirely.
For visual customisation, the colour of the panel outline and the icons for each action category can be freely adjusted. Reduced Motion can also be enabled to disable most panel animations.
Search and Panel Behaviour
Choose when the panel does or doesn't dismiss, including in response to your searches, with options such as:
- Right-click to dismiss.
- Dismiss when clicking outside the panel.
- Dismiss after a successful action.
- Whether to restore the previous query upon re-summon.
- Whether to always restore to the search view.
- Pinned action filtering in search results.
Compatibility
Adobe After Effects
Minimum supported host versions:
- Apple macOS (Intel and Apple Silicon): Adobe After Effects 2024 or later.
- Microsoft Windows: Adobe After Effects 2024 or later.
Operating System
Minimum required versions:
- Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit) or later.
- Apple macOS 13 Ventura or later.
Built for the Way You Actually Work
Most tools in AE ask you to learn where they live. Command Frame asks you what you want.
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Version History
1.7.5 -
Sep 22, 2026
Added
- Newly applied effects are now selected on the layer, making them easier to find and rename. In multi-step actions, this new behaviour only applies when adding an effect is the final step. This feature pairs best with the "Dismiss Command Frame after a successful action" setting toggled on.
- Added vendor-name search hints for 30 supported script integrations.
- Newly applied effects are now selected on the layer, making them easier to find and rename. In multi-step actions, this new behaviour only applies when adding an effect is the final step. This feature pairs best with the "Dismiss Command Frame after a successful action" setting toggled on.
- Added vendor-name search hints for 30 supported script integrations.
1.7.4 -
Sep 14, 2026
Added
- Added integration requests for 149 recognised After Effects tools. Search for a tool by name and choose `Send request` to signal interest to Command Frame's developer.
Fixed
- Fixed Up and Down arrow navigation jumping between search results instead of following their displayed order when categories are enabled.
- Fixed letter shortcuts such as Alt+F being saved incorrectly or displaying a blank or square symbol when assigned using a Cyrillic keyboard layout.
- Added integration requests for 149 recognised After Effects tools. Search for a tool by name and choose `Send request` to signal interest to Command Frame's developer.
Fixed
- Fixed Up and Down arrow navigation jumping between search results instead of following their displayed order when categories are enabled.
- Fixed letter shortcuts such as Alt+F being saved incorrectly or displaying a blank or square symbol when assigned using a Cyrillic keyboard layout.
1.7.3 -
Sep 11, 2026
Added
- Added eight commands for moving selected layers by 1 or 10 screen pixels up, down, left or right.
- Added four timeline zoom commands: Zoom Timeline In, Zoom Timeline Out, Toggle Timeline Zoom Level, and Zoom Timeline to Frame Intervals.
Changed
- Significantly improved animation smoothness when switching between Search, Settings and action details.
- Improved search performance after running actions, particularly with larger action libraries.
- Improved panel performance by reducing unnecessary background shortcut updates when changing unrelated settings.
- Improved panel performance by reducing unnecessary background work in Settings tabs that are not currently visible.
Fixed
- Fixed a brief stutter when returning to Search from Settings' Config tab, even with every section closed.
- Fixed Community Discussion continuing to slow down the panel after its section was closed.
- Fixed global keyboard shortcuts sometimes becoming unresponsive after being reassigned between actions, including Script actions.
- Fixed a bug where Command Frame displayed a newly assigned shortcut for an action that was being mirrored with a corresponding action in After Effects' shortcut file, but wasn't actually able to register the keystroke when pressed.
- Fixed a rare edge case in which shortcut edits could potentially overwrite changes made to After Effects' shortcut file before Command Frame had reloaded it.
- Fixed typing in the Saved Action Name field and other settings text fields potentially triggering shortcuts in other plugins.
- Added eight commands for moving selected layers by 1 or 10 screen pixels up, down, left or right.
- Added four timeline zoom commands: Zoom Timeline In, Zoom Timeline Out, Toggle Timeline Zoom Level, and Zoom Timeline to Frame Intervals.
Changed
- Significantly improved animation smoothness when switching between Search, Settings and action details.
- Improved search performance after running actions, particularly with larger action libraries.
- Improved panel performance by reducing unnecessary background shortcut updates when changing unrelated settings.
- Improved panel performance by reducing unnecessary background work in Settings tabs that are not currently visible.
Fixed
- Fixed a brief stutter when returning to Search from Settings' Config tab, even with every section closed.
- Fixed Community Discussion continuing to slow down the panel after its section was closed.
- Fixed global keyboard shortcuts sometimes becoming unresponsive after being reassigned between actions, including Script actions.
- Fixed a bug where Command Frame displayed a newly assigned shortcut for an action that was being mirrored with a corresponding action in After Effects' shortcut file, but wasn't actually able to register the keystroke when pressed.
- Fixed a rare edge case in which shortcut edits could potentially overwrite changes made to After Effects' shortcut file before Command Frame had reloaded it.
- Fixed typing in the Saved Action Name field and other settings text fields potentially triggering shortcuts in other plugins.
1.7.2 -
Sep 9, 2026
Fixed
- Fixed `Toggle Command Frame` and `Back or Dismiss Command Frame` not being assignable to Stream Deck buttons.
- Fixed the “CF Action” dropdown in Stream Deck remaining on “Waiting for actions…” and preventing selection of an assigned action.
- Fixed `Toggle Command Frame` and `Back or Dismiss Command Frame` not being assignable to Stream Deck buttons.
- Fixed the “CF Action” dropdown in Stream Deck remaining on “Waiting for actions…” and preventing selection of an assigned action.
1.7.1 -
Sep 6, 2026
Added
- Expanded contextual availability for recognised Script actions. These actions can now respond to documented composition, layer type, layer relationship, keyframe, mask, effect, selected property, and Project panel composition context. Coverage now includes 202 of 218 fixed Script actions.
- Added context checks for Script actions that require selected properties or composition items. These actions can now dim when the required property or composition target is absent.
- Added multi-step query support for the shape layers created by Type's Highlight, Underline and Strikethrough actions. Following actions can use the newly selected shape, and queries recognise when a later action requires text instead.
- Added multi-step query support for text created by Type's Number Rig and Counter Rig when nothing is selected. Following text actions can use the new layer, while running on existing text retains the existing selection.
- Added awareness of the resulting layer type when multi-step queries create layers, including effects and presets configured to create a target when nothing is selected. Queries and saved multi-step actions now account for that target when checking subsequent actions, while still using existing layers when selected.
Changed
- Refined availability requirements for 9 previously supported Script actions, while preserving actions that can operate on the whole composition or create content without a selection.
Fixed
- Corrected descriptions for various recognised Script actions. These now more accurately explain what each action does and where a selection is optional.
- Fixed duplicate default actions for recognised Scripts when the same Script was installed or detected in more than one location.
- Fixed backups separating a Script's argument variants into different installations. Recognised Scripts affected by older backups are also repaired, so their manually installed variants can be removed together.
- Fixed Script shortcuts, Stream Deck assignments, and History entries losing their connection to the correct action when duplicate recognised Scripts are combined, or settings are restored.
- Expanded contextual availability for recognised Script actions. These actions can now respond to documented composition, layer type, layer relationship, keyframe, mask, effect, selected property, and Project panel composition context. Coverage now includes 202 of 218 fixed Script actions.
- Added context checks for Script actions that require selected properties or composition items. These actions can now dim when the required property or composition target is absent.
- Added multi-step query support for the shape layers created by Type's Highlight, Underline and Strikethrough actions. Following actions can use the newly selected shape, and queries recognise when a later action requires text instead.
- Added multi-step query support for text created by Type's Number Rig and Counter Rig when nothing is selected. Following text actions can use the new layer, while running on existing text retains the existing selection.
- Added awareness of the resulting layer type when multi-step queries create layers, including effects and presets configured to create a target when nothing is selected. Queries and saved multi-step actions now account for that target when checking subsequent actions, while still using existing layers when selected.
Changed
- Refined availability requirements for 9 previously supported Script actions, while preserving actions that can operate on the whole composition or create content without a selection.
Fixed
- Corrected descriptions for various recognised Script actions. These now more accurately explain what each action does and where a selection is optional.
- Fixed duplicate default actions for recognised Scripts when the same Script was installed or detected in more than one location.
- Fixed backups separating a Script's argument variants into different installations. Recognised Scripts affected by older backups are also repaired, so their manually installed variants can be removed together.
- Fixed Script shortcuts, Stream Deck assignments, and History entries losing their connection to the correct action when duplicate recognised Scripts are combined, or settings are restored.
1.7 -
Sep 5, 2026
Added
- Added support for Elgato Stream Deck through the included Stream Deck plugin.
- Added support for assigning any Command Frame action to Stream Deck buttons, including commands, effects, presets, recognised Script actions, imported toolbar actions, compatible plugin actions, and saved multi-step actions.
- Added `Add to Stream Deck` and `Remove from Stream Deck` buttons to Action Detail. These are assignable in the Elgato Stream Deck app to generic reusable blank `CF Action` template actions. Command Frame dynamically supplies each assigned button's artwork, title, and current availability.
- Stream Deck Buttons dim automatically when their action cannot run in the current After Effects state, such as when an action needs an active composition, selected layers, selected properties, selected keyframes, masks, or effects. Command Frame provides feedback in After Effects when a dimmed Stream Deck button is pressed, explaining why the action is currently unavailable.
- Added bulk Stream Deck assignment for recognised Scripts. From any supported Script action, you can add that action individually or add the Script's remaining recognised variants together.
- Added bulk Stream Deck assignment for imported toolbars. You can add only the toolbar-opening action, or add the launcher and all remaining toolbar actions together.
- Added a `Stream Deck Actions` section to the Config page in Settings, listing every action currently available to Stream Deck. You can remove actions from this list using the trash icon.
- Added contextual availability to 123 recognised actions across 26 third-party Scripts. For example, EaseCopy actions now require selected keyframes, Fresh Trim's Selection action requires at least 2 selected layers, and supported Mask Unlinker actions respond to selected masks or layers as appropriate.
- Added more precise unavailable-action explanations for recognised Script actions, including missing compositions, insufficient layer selections, and missing selected keyframes, masks, or effects.
Changed
- Imported toolbar buttons that match a recognised Script operation now use the recognised Script action's execution and contextual availability while retaining the toolbar's original label and artwork.
- Search now presents 1 recognised operation when an imported toolbar button and a recognised Script action represent the same function, instead of showing separate duplicate actions.
- Imported toolbar buttons now update their enabled or unavailable state as the After Effects context changes.
- Saved multi-step actions now check their complete sequence before beginning when a later action is already known to be unavailable.
- Moved applicable delete and uninstall controls into the main Action Detail control row alongside Pin, Blacklist, and Stream Deck controls.
- Expanded the included readme with Stream Deck installation, assignment, bulk-placement, editing, removal, availability, and troubleshooting guidance.
Fixed
- Fixed saved and nested multi-step actions sometimes beginning earlier steps when a later step was already known to be unavailable.
- Fixed confirming an unavailable query sometimes activating a different enabled result instead.
- Fixed multi-step queries sometimes getting stuck after a compatible plugin Hook action failed or timed out. Failed queries now stop without running the remaining steps or preventing another query from running.
- Fixed a rare macOS startup issue where Command Frame could interfere with an active After Effects or macOS dialog while preparing its interface in the background, causing the pointer to flash and windows to become unresponsive.
- Fixed older saved search queries in History from older versions of Command Frame showing oversized, cut-off text instead of an icon, overlapping the query text.
- Added support for Elgato Stream Deck through the included Stream Deck plugin.
- Added support for assigning any Command Frame action to Stream Deck buttons, including commands, effects, presets, recognised Script actions, imported toolbar actions, compatible plugin actions, and saved multi-step actions.
- Added `Add to Stream Deck` and `Remove from Stream Deck` buttons to Action Detail. These are assignable in the Elgato Stream Deck app to generic reusable blank `CF Action` template actions. Command Frame dynamically supplies each assigned button's artwork, title, and current availability.
- Stream Deck Buttons dim automatically when their action cannot run in the current After Effects state, such as when an action needs an active composition, selected layers, selected properties, selected keyframes, masks, or effects. Command Frame provides feedback in After Effects when a dimmed Stream Deck button is pressed, explaining why the action is currently unavailable.
- Added bulk Stream Deck assignment for recognised Scripts. From any supported Script action, you can add that action individually or add the Script's remaining recognised variants together.
- Added bulk Stream Deck assignment for imported toolbars. You can add only the toolbar-opening action, or add the launcher and all remaining toolbar actions together.
- Added a `Stream Deck Actions` section to the Config page in Settings, listing every action currently available to Stream Deck. You can remove actions from this list using the trash icon.
- Added contextual availability to 123 recognised actions across 26 third-party Scripts. For example, EaseCopy actions now require selected keyframes, Fresh Trim's Selection action requires at least 2 selected layers, and supported Mask Unlinker actions respond to selected masks or layers as appropriate.
- Added more precise unavailable-action explanations for recognised Script actions, including missing compositions, insufficient layer selections, and missing selected keyframes, masks, or effects.
Changed
- Imported toolbar buttons that match a recognised Script operation now use the recognised Script action's execution and contextual availability while retaining the toolbar's original label and artwork.
- Search now presents 1 recognised operation when an imported toolbar button and a recognised Script action represent the same function, instead of showing separate duplicate actions.
- Imported toolbar buttons now update their enabled or unavailable state as the After Effects context changes.
- Saved multi-step actions now check their complete sequence before beginning when a later action is already known to be unavailable.
- Moved applicable delete and uninstall controls into the main Action Detail control row alongside Pin, Blacklist, and Stream Deck controls.
- Expanded the included readme with Stream Deck installation, assignment, bulk-placement, editing, removal, availability, and troubleshooting guidance.
Fixed
- Fixed saved and nested multi-step actions sometimes beginning earlier steps when a later step was already known to be unavailable.
- Fixed confirming an unavailable query sometimes activating a different enabled result instead.
- Fixed multi-step queries sometimes getting stuck after a compatible plugin Hook action failed or timed out. Failed queries now stop without running the remaining steps or preventing another query from running.
- Fixed a rare macOS startup issue where Command Frame could interfere with an active After Effects or macOS dialog while preparing its interface in the background, causing the pointer to flash and windows to become unresponsive.
- Fixed older saved search queries in History from older versions of Command Frame showing oversized, cut-off text instead of an icon, overlapping the query text.
1.6.1 -
Aug 30, 2026
Fixed
- Fixed a bug that would cause macOS shortcuts to be unintentionally swallowed/ignored on certain systems.
- Fixed a bug that would cause macOS shortcuts to be unintentionally swallowed/ignored on certain systems.
1.6 -
Aug 28, 2026
Added
- Added Shift and Command/Control-click support for search results to insert their respective queries into the search field directly. This inserts the selected action into the current query step without running it immediately, including inside multi-step queries. This makes it easier to define and enter commands with preset values in the search field, and it significantly eases multi-step command construction, particularly with third-party script actions.
- Added highlighted-result autocomplete so Search can continue offering a suggestion whenever the active query step can safely complete to at least 1 available action. Normal autocomplete still supplies a clear completion when possible; when several actions remain plausible, Search highlights 1 compatible result and uses it for the suggestion. Moving through the results updates that suggestion, while pressing Tab inserts the highlighted action's intended query without running it. This works for standalone searches and every active step in a multi-step query.
- Added a broad corpus of keywords associated with recognised third-party scripts, making their actions easier to discover and use.
- Added a new tutorial step demonstrating how using Tab for autocomplete and the new Shift and Command/Control-click support for Search results works.
- Added easier removal for manually installed Scripts with argument variants. Deleting any one argument action variant for a Script now removes all of that Script's installed variants from Command Frame while leaving the original Script file untouched. You can still hide undesirable actions by blacklisting the action in its expanded action view.
- Added 29 third-party Scripts to the list of automatically recognised script actions. When valid installations are detected, these scripts’ respective actions will automatically be exposed in Command Frame. As with any other actions, you can assign these keyboard shortcuts and also combine them in multi-step query macros with any other action.
- Added 5 recognised Universal Audio actions for distributing audio through nested compositions, refreshing or removing universal embeddings, opening its options, and viewing the audio’s source composition.
- Added 6 recognised Explode Shape Layers actions for exploding or merging shapes, converting artwork, removing Illustrator artboards, and selecting fills or strokes.
- Added 1 recognised Ray Dynamic Color action for swapping 2 selected colour properties.
- Added 4 recognised TextExploder actions for splitting text into character, word, or line layers and repeating its last-used settings.
- Added 13 recognised Parenter actions, covering 2D and 3D Parenter creation, removal, restoring transforms, copying and pasting parents and clearing parents.
- Added 7 recognised Easy Clones 2 actions for creating and extending clone systems, renumbering, shuffling, centring, replacing colours, and adding delay expressions.
- Added 15 recognised Fresh Trim v2 actions for trimming layers, compositions, and work areas using selections, keys, markers, mattes, parents, children, the current-time indicator, and other supported ranges.
- Added 34 recognised MarkerMover actions for moving, copying, cutting, pasting, deleting, updating, and triggering markers; managing work areas; switching marker options; and using its 5 memory banks.
- Added 18 recognised Essential Namer actions for adding transform, Source Text, or selected properties to Essential Properties, controlling name matching, and focusing the active composition.
- Added 7 recognised Pins & Boxes actions for creating and managing pins, boxes, visibility, and pin timing.
- Added 13 recognised MochaImport+ actions for tracking in Mocha, loading and applying tracking data, moving or stabilising layers, creating After Effects track points, adding keyframes, and transferring data to or from precompositions.
- Added 4 recognised Mask & Layer Splitter actions for separating masks, renaming layers, precomposing and cropping, and offsetting layers.
- Added 2 recognised Easy Bounce Pro actions for applying a bounce normally or only within the work area.
- Added 6 recognised Loopy actions for creating and adjusting loops, changing their direction, and applying time remapping.
- Added 7 recognised Key Cloner actions for cloning, reversing, and moving selected keyframes, including combined and last-key variants.
- Added 4 recognised Buttcapper actions for changing selected stroke cap styles and maintaining their apparent width.
- Added 15 recognised Type actions for typing animations, blinking cursors, flowing and styling text, responsive rectangles, number and counter rigs, monospacing, text motion blur, splitting or converting text, removing Type effects, and opening its settings.
- Added 3 recognised Easy Bake actions for converting expressions to keyframes, restoring the pre-bake state, and excluding selected properties from baking.
- Added 6 recognised Boxcam actions for creating Boxcam cameras and output compositions, converting selected layers, updating outputs, and managing custom resolutions.
- Added 5 recognised Void actions for creating blank Voids, Variant adjustment layers and Volume layers, zeroing selected layers, and opening the Void panel.
- Added 4 recognised NoSolids actions for creating shape-based nulls and adjustment layers, plus composition-sized rectangles and ellipses.
- Added 2 recognised Zero Tangents actions for zeroing incoming or outgoing spatial tangents on selected keyframes.
- Added 1 recognised Release Colors action for separating selected colours into RGB controls.
- Added 4 recognised Auto Crop actions for cropping compositions to their contents, full duration or a selected mask, and opening Auto Crop preferences.
- Added 1 recognised Multimatte action for creating a hidden combined matte.
- Added 1 recognised Toon Flare action for creating a consistent basic flare.
- Added 4 recognised MarKey actions for adding, updating or removing Markeys, opening its settings, and opening the panel.
- Added 5 recognised Mask Unlinker actions for unlinking and relinking masks, selecting the next or all masks, and opening the panel.
- Added 18 recognised Relativity Mini actions for arranging layers into grids, radial layouts, rows, columns and diagonals; duplicating and scaling layers; selecting work-area keyframes; making paths linear; and baking controllers.
Changed
- Made general performance optimisations, particularly when opening action details after searching or using autocomplete and when returning to Search. Controlled testing measured 62% less delay at the slowest points of these transitions.
- Known Script actions can now be found using words from their friendly descriptions and useful keywords. For example, searches such as `MarkerMover prompt` can find its marker-move prompt action.
- Search and autocomplete now treat compact, spaced, and alternate Script names consistently, including `EaseCopy` and `Ease Copy`, `MarkerMover` and `Marker Mover`, and `EssentialNamer` and `Essential Namer`.
- Actions whose names contain `&` can now also be found using `and`. When inserted into a multi-step query, autocomplete uses the `and` spelling, so it isn't mistaken for another query step. This works for recognised Scripts, effects, and presets.
- Autocomplete now continues from a recognised Script's base action into its individual actions, and inserts the correct runnable query when a suggestion is accepted.
- Recognised Script action discovery, autocomplete, and result insertion now work within every active step of a multi-step query without changing its other steps.
- Recognised Script actions now use clear task descriptions in Search, Settings, action details, import previews, and History instead of displaying raw Script arguments. Global notification toasts use shorter action names where space is limited.
- Recognised Script queries now colour the Script name and selected action consistently with other Command Frame actions, including queries inserted from Search results.
- Updated Script-related wording throughout Settings, action details, import dialogs, and status messages. Labels such as `Import Script`, `Script Name`, and `Installed Script` now describe both personal scripts and recognised third-party tools more generally.
- Improved Search responsiveness with large action collections, and while Scripts, panels, and connected tools refresh their available actions.
- Improved the sharpness of image-based action and toolbar icons on high-density displays throughout Search, action details, and imported toolbar views.
Fixed
- Fixed multi-step queries incorrectly reporting that another query was already running when an included effect or preset needed Command Frame to create a layer before applying it.
- Fixed autocomplete and Search-result query insertion sometimes using lowercase lookup text instead of an action's intended capitalisation.
- Fixed long action descriptions being given space ahead of action names, which could shorten Script titles when badges such as `Watch Folder` were shown.
- Fixed some otherwise valid toolbar files failing to import when their contents were stored within an enclosing folder.
- Fixed commands with a required value attached directly to the action name being submitted and eventually timing out. Search now explains where a separating space is required before anything runs.
- Added Shift and Command/Control-click support for search results to insert their respective queries into the search field directly. This inserts the selected action into the current query step without running it immediately, including inside multi-step queries. This makes it easier to define and enter commands with preset values in the search field, and it significantly eases multi-step command construction, particularly with third-party script actions.
- Added highlighted-result autocomplete so Search can continue offering a suggestion whenever the active query step can safely complete to at least 1 available action. Normal autocomplete still supplies a clear completion when possible; when several actions remain plausible, Search highlights 1 compatible result and uses it for the suggestion. Moving through the results updates that suggestion, while pressing Tab inserts the highlighted action's intended query without running it. This works for standalone searches and every active step in a multi-step query.
- Added a broad corpus of keywords associated with recognised third-party scripts, making their actions easier to discover and use.
- Added a new tutorial step demonstrating how using Tab for autocomplete and the new Shift and Command/Control-click support for Search results works.
- Added easier removal for manually installed Scripts with argument variants. Deleting any one argument action variant for a Script now removes all of that Script's installed variants from Command Frame while leaving the original Script file untouched. You can still hide undesirable actions by blacklisting the action in its expanded action view.
- Added 29 third-party Scripts to the list of automatically recognised script actions. When valid installations are detected, these scripts’ respective actions will automatically be exposed in Command Frame. As with any other actions, you can assign these keyboard shortcuts and also combine them in multi-step query macros with any other action.
- Added 5 recognised Universal Audio actions for distributing audio through nested compositions, refreshing or removing universal embeddings, opening its options, and viewing the audio’s source composition.
- Added 6 recognised Explode Shape Layers actions for exploding or merging shapes, converting artwork, removing Illustrator artboards, and selecting fills or strokes.
- Added 1 recognised Ray Dynamic Color action for swapping 2 selected colour properties.
- Added 4 recognised TextExploder actions for splitting text into character, word, or line layers and repeating its last-used settings.
- Added 13 recognised Parenter actions, covering 2D and 3D Parenter creation, removal, restoring transforms, copying and pasting parents and clearing parents.
- Added 7 recognised Easy Clones 2 actions for creating and extending clone systems, renumbering, shuffling, centring, replacing colours, and adding delay expressions.
- Added 15 recognised Fresh Trim v2 actions for trimming layers, compositions, and work areas using selections, keys, markers, mattes, parents, children, the current-time indicator, and other supported ranges.
- Added 34 recognised MarkerMover actions for moving, copying, cutting, pasting, deleting, updating, and triggering markers; managing work areas; switching marker options; and using its 5 memory banks.
- Added 18 recognised Essential Namer actions for adding transform, Source Text, or selected properties to Essential Properties, controlling name matching, and focusing the active composition.
- Added 7 recognised Pins & Boxes actions for creating and managing pins, boxes, visibility, and pin timing.
- Added 13 recognised MochaImport+ actions for tracking in Mocha, loading and applying tracking data, moving or stabilising layers, creating After Effects track points, adding keyframes, and transferring data to or from precompositions.
- Added 4 recognised Mask & Layer Splitter actions for separating masks, renaming layers, precomposing and cropping, and offsetting layers.
- Added 2 recognised Easy Bounce Pro actions for applying a bounce normally or only within the work area.
- Added 6 recognised Loopy actions for creating and adjusting loops, changing their direction, and applying time remapping.
- Added 7 recognised Key Cloner actions for cloning, reversing, and moving selected keyframes, including combined and last-key variants.
- Added 4 recognised Buttcapper actions for changing selected stroke cap styles and maintaining their apparent width.
- Added 15 recognised Type actions for typing animations, blinking cursors, flowing and styling text, responsive rectangles, number and counter rigs, monospacing, text motion blur, splitting or converting text, removing Type effects, and opening its settings.
- Added 3 recognised Easy Bake actions for converting expressions to keyframes, restoring the pre-bake state, and excluding selected properties from baking.
- Added 6 recognised Boxcam actions for creating Boxcam cameras and output compositions, converting selected layers, updating outputs, and managing custom resolutions.
- Added 5 recognised Void actions for creating blank Voids, Variant adjustment layers and Volume layers, zeroing selected layers, and opening the Void panel.
- Added 4 recognised NoSolids actions for creating shape-based nulls and adjustment layers, plus composition-sized rectangles and ellipses.
- Added 2 recognised Zero Tangents actions for zeroing incoming or outgoing spatial tangents on selected keyframes.
- Added 1 recognised Release Colors action for separating selected colours into RGB controls.
- Added 4 recognised Auto Crop actions for cropping compositions to their contents, full duration or a selected mask, and opening Auto Crop preferences.
- Added 1 recognised Multimatte action for creating a hidden combined matte.
- Added 1 recognised Toon Flare action for creating a consistent basic flare.
- Added 4 recognised MarKey actions for adding, updating or removing Markeys, opening its settings, and opening the panel.
- Added 5 recognised Mask Unlinker actions for unlinking and relinking masks, selecting the next or all masks, and opening the panel.
- Added 18 recognised Relativity Mini actions for arranging layers into grids, radial layouts, rows, columns and diagonals; duplicating and scaling layers; selecting work-area keyframes; making paths linear; and baking controllers.
Changed
- Made general performance optimisations, particularly when opening action details after searching or using autocomplete and when returning to Search. Controlled testing measured 62% less delay at the slowest points of these transitions.
- Known Script actions can now be found using words from their friendly descriptions and useful keywords. For example, searches such as `MarkerMover prompt` can find its marker-move prompt action.
- Search and autocomplete now treat compact, spaced, and alternate Script names consistently, including `EaseCopy` and `Ease Copy`, `MarkerMover` and `Marker Mover`, and `EssentialNamer` and `Essential Namer`.
- Actions whose names contain `&` can now also be found using `and`. When inserted into a multi-step query, autocomplete uses the `and` spelling, so it isn't mistaken for another query step. This works for recognised Scripts, effects, and presets.
- Autocomplete now continues from a recognised Script's base action into its individual actions, and inserts the correct runnable query when a suggestion is accepted.
- Recognised Script action discovery, autocomplete, and result insertion now work within every active step of a multi-step query without changing its other steps.
- Recognised Script actions now use clear task descriptions in Search, Settings, action details, import previews, and History instead of displaying raw Script arguments. Global notification toasts use shorter action names where space is limited.
- Recognised Script queries now colour the Script name and selected action consistently with other Command Frame actions, including queries inserted from Search results.
- Updated Script-related wording throughout Settings, action details, import dialogs, and status messages. Labels such as `Import Script`, `Script Name`, and `Installed Script` now describe both personal scripts and recognised third-party tools more generally.
- Improved Search responsiveness with large action collections, and while Scripts, panels, and connected tools refresh their available actions.
- Improved the sharpness of image-based action and toolbar icons on high-density displays throughout Search, action details, and imported toolbar views.
Fixed
- Fixed multi-step queries incorrectly reporting that another query was already running when an included effect or preset needed Command Frame to create a layer before applying it.
- Fixed autocomplete and Search-result query insertion sometimes using lowercase lookup text instead of an action's intended capitalisation.
- Fixed long action descriptions being given space ahead of action names, which could shorten Script titles when badges such as `Watch Folder` were shown.
- Fixed some otherwise valid toolbar files failing to import when their contents were stored within an enclosing folder.
- Fixed commands with a required value attached directly to the action name being submitted and eventually timing out. Search now explains where a separating space is required before anything runs.
1.5.1 -
Aug 19, 2026
Added
- Added modifier support for toolbar buttons. Search results and action history also identify each modifier version by its original toolbar button.
- Added a Help option to Settings for opening the Command Frame readme included with the installation.
Changed
- Improved Search so `Bring to Front`, `Bring Forward`, `Send Backward`, and `Send to Back` are easier to find with layer and timeline-order wording, including `top`, `bottom`, `move layer up`, and `move layer down`.
- Clarified the tutorial launch message to explain that interacting with After Effects or Command Frame while a tutorial is running cancels it.
- Improved macOS shortcut handling.
Fixed
- Fixed Search sometimes missing a result when a query matched the beginning of a later word in its name, including the reported German `Kontroll` search.
- Fixed Command Frame not recognising some shortcuts from German After Effects shortcut files that use modifier names such as `Strg`, `Umschalt`, or `Umschalttaste`.
- Fixed panels and commands from After Effects' Window menu, including Content-Aware Fill, being missing from Command Frame when After Effects was running in German.
- Fixed keys pressed inside After Effects dialogs sometimes being treated as shortcuts after the dialog closed.
- Fixed Command Frame sometimes remaining above an active After Effects or macOS dialog after clicking between windows or switching application focus.
- Fixed repeated `Toggle Command Frame` results sometimes accumulating after opening Command Frame with a shortcut, which could also make the `Command Frame` category slower to display.
- Added modifier support for toolbar buttons. Search results and action history also identify each modifier version by its original toolbar button.
- Added a Help option to Settings for opening the Command Frame readme included with the installation.
Changed
- Improved Search so `Bring to Front`, `Bring Forward`, `Send Backward`, and `Send to Back` are easier to find with layer and timeline-order wording, including `top`, `bottom`, `move layer up`, and `move layer down`.
- Clarified the tutorial launch message to explain that interacting with After Effects or Command Frame while a tutorial is running cancels it.
- Improved macOS shortcut handling.
Fixed
- Fixed Search sometimes missing a result when a query matched the beginning of a later word in its name, including the reported German `Kontroll` search.
- Fixed Command Frame not recognising some shortcuts from German After Effects shortcut files that use modifier names such as `Strg`, `Umschalt`, or `Umschalttaste`.
- Fixed panels and commands from After Effects' Window menu, including Content-Aware Fill, being missing from Command Frame when After Effects was running in German.
- Fixed keys pressed inside After Effects dialogs sometimes being treated as shortcuts after the dialog closed.
- Fixed Command Frame sometimes remaining above an active After Effects or macOS dialog after clicking between windows or switching application focus.
- Fixed repeated `Toggle Command Frame` results sometimes accumulating after opening Command Frame with a shortcut, which could also make the `Command Frame` category slower to display.
1.5 -
Aug 3, 2026
Added
- Added `Back Up Settings…` and `Restore Settings…` actions to the `Privacy & Maintenance` section in Settings. These include Command Frame's current settings, imported toolbars, individually installed User Scripts, supported top-level scripts from User Script watch folders, recent action and search history, locally stored usage diagnostics, and user-selected custom sound files.
- Added an option to save screenshots relative to the current After Effects project file. Paths such as `../Screenshots` can keep captures alongside a consistent project structure; the destination automatically follows the project after Save As, and Command Frame remembers the absolute and project-relative folders independently when switching modes.
- Added a new default-on option to automatically show a layer's effects after applying an effect as a standalone action or the final step of a multi-step action.
- Added a `Preset Keyframe Handling` setting for animated effect presets applied from Search. The default `Best Guess` option prevents a preset from placing keyframes on an unrelated selected property, while still allowing selected-property workflows when the property appears to match the preset. `Standard` preserves After Effects' usual selection-sensitive behaviour, while `Never` always protects selected properties and keyframes. When protection is used, Command Frame restores the original timeline selection afterwards.
- Added an embedded version of Command Frame's discussion thread in the settings under a new "Community Discussion" section.
- Added `Detected Scripts` and `Detected Panels` lists to the `Scripts & Panels` section in Settings, including items in After Effects' Scripts and ScriptUI Panels folders and panels exposed through its Window menu. Recognised scripts such as EaseCopy include their recommended argument actions even when installed only in After Effects, and listed items open the same action details as normal search results.
- Matching copies of a User Script found through individual imports, watch folders, and After Effects are combined into one action for each script argument. Command Frame automatically uses the best available copy and falls back to another when needed.
- Added Windows graphics startup checks that confirm Command Frame is using the selected graphics mode before showing its interface.
- Added an emergency software graphics fallback for the next launch when compatibility graphics cannot start safely.
Changed
- Expanded Windows graphics recovery so Command Frame can use compatibility graphics after a graphics-related crash or an interrupted session using hardware acceleration, without automatically retrying hardware acceleration.
- Improved reliability when repeatedly opening and closing Command Frame while compatibility graphics is active.
- Improved responsiveness when opening Settings and returning to Search.
- Improved memory management and stability throughout Command Frame, particularly when capturing screenshots, importing toolbars, running background tasks, and closing After Effects.
- Improved toolbar importing so damaged or unusually large archives fail safely, while retaining as much usable content as possible.
- Improved screenshot memory use and reliability for large captures and screenshots with embedded colour profiles.
- User Script actions now retain their pins, shortcuts, aliases, visibility settings, custom sound effects, and history when their active copy changes between an individual import, watch folder, or After Effects installation.
- User Script actions now consistently show either a `Script` or `Watch Folder` badge in search results, Settings, and action history.
- Improved support tooling.
Fixed
- Fixed the Align panel action opening an unrelated panel on macOS or the Premiere project export dialogue on Windows.
- Fixed Command Frame sometimes failing to start in After Effects when Premiere Pro was already open with a project.
- Fixed Command Frame refusing to open when Mocha AE or Mocha Pro had already loaded in After Effects, including when opening a project containing Mocha directly from Finder or File Explorer.
- Fixed hardware acceleration sometimes returning to compatibility graphics after a successful restart test when Command Frame was closed before quitting After Effects.
- Fixed some panels exposed in After Effects' Window menu being missing or doing nothing in Command Frame, including duplicate copies of a ScriptUI Panel installed in both the user and application Scripts folders.
- Fixed User Script argument actions sometimes affecting later ScriptUI Panel actions. This could cause a panel to reopen blank or repeat an earlier script warning.
- Fixed scripts with recognised argument actions appearing as empty panels when their shortcut files were installed in After Effects' ScriptUI Panels folder.
- Fixed `Toggle Project Panel`, `Toggle Essential Properties Panel`, and similar panel actions sometimes reporting `Window menu item not found` on Windows.
- Fixed non-panel Window menu entries such as `Composition: (none)` and `Timeline: (none)` appearing as actions on Windows.
- Fixed several shutdown-related stability issues that could occur while User Script watch folders, Connection Doctor reports, or pending interface updates were still active.
- Fixed screenshots potentially using an incorrect black background when After Effects could not provide the composition's background colour.
- Fixed imported toolbars with missing or similarly named icon files sometimes failing unnecessarily or replacing one icon with another.
- Fixed some imported toolbar icons constructed out of SVG paths appearing malformed in global action notification toasts.
- Added `Back Up Settings…` and `Restore Settings…` actions to the `Privacy & Maintenance` section in Settings. These include Command Frame's current settings, imported toolbars, individually installed User Scripts, supported top-level scripts from User Script watch folders, recent action and search history, locally stored usage diagnostics, and user-selected custom sound files.
- Added an option to save screenshots relative to the current After Effects project file. Paths such as `../Screenshots` can keep captures alongside a consistent project structure; the destination automatically follows the project after Save As, and Command Frame remembers the absolute and project-relative folders independently when switching modes.
- Added a new default-on option to automatically show a layer's effects after applying an effect as a standalone action or the final step of a multi-step action.
- Added a `Preset Keyframe Handling` setting for animated effect presets applied from Search. The default `Best Guess` option prevents a preset from placing keyframes on an unrelated selected property, while still allowing selected-property workflows when the property appears to match the preset. `Standard` preserves After Effects' usual selection-sensitive behaviour, while `Never` always protects selected properties and keyframes. When protection is used, Command Frame restores the original timeline selection afterwards.
- Added an embedded version of Command Frame's discussion thread in the settings under a new "Community Discussion" section.
- Added `Detected Scripts` and `Detected Panels` lists to the `Scripts & Panels` section in Settings, including items in After Effects' Scripts and ScriptUI Panels folders and panels exposed through its Window menu. Recognised scripts such as EaseCopy include their recommended argument actions even when installed only in After Effects, and listed items open the same action details as normal search results.
- Matching copies of a User Script found through individual imports, watch folders, and After Effects are combined into one action for each script argument. Command Frame automatically uses the best available copy and falls back to another when needed.
- Added Windows graphics startup checks that confirm Command Frame is using the selected graphics mode before showing its interface.
- Added an emergency software graphics fallback for the next launch when compatibility graphics cannot start safely.
Changed
- Expanded Windows graphics recovery so Command Frame can use compatibility graphics after a graphics-related crash or an interrupted session using hardware acceleration, without automatically retrying hardware acceleration.
- Improved reliability when repeatedly opening and closing Command Frame while compatibility graphics is active.
- Improved responsiveness when opening Settings and returning to Search.
- Improved memory management and stability throughout Command Frame, particularly when capturing screenshots, importing toolbars, running background tasks, and closing After Effects.
- Improved toolbar importing so damaged or unusually large archives fail safely, while retaining as much usable content as possible.
- Improved screenshot memory use and reliability for large captures and screenshots with embedded colour profiles.
- User Script actions now retain their pins, shortcuts, aliases, visibility settings, custom sound effects, and history when their active copy changes between an individual import, watch folder, or After Effects installation.
- User Script actions now consistently show either a `Script` or `Watch Folder` badge in search results, Settings, and action history.
- Improved support tooling.
Fixed
- Fixed the Align panel action opening an unrelated panel on macOS or the Premiere project export dialogue on Windows.
- Fixed Command Frame sometimes failing to start in After Effects when Premiere Pro was already open with a project.
- Fixed Command Frame refusing to open when Mocha AE or Mocha Pro had already loaded in After Effects, including when opening a project containing Mocha directly from Finder or File Explorer.
- Fixed hardware acceleration sometimes returning to compatibility graphics after a successful restart test when Command Frame was closed before quitting After Effects.
- Fixed some panels exposed in After Effects' Window menu being missing or doing nothing in Command Frame, including duplicate copies of a ScriptUI Panel installed in both the user and application Scripts folders.
- Fixed User Script argument actions sometimes affecting later ScriptUI Panel actions. This could cause a panel to reopen blank or repeat an earlier script warning.
- Fixed scripts with recognised argument actions appearing as empty panels when their shortcut files were installed in After Effects' ScriptUI Panels folder.
- Fixed `Toggle Project Panel`, `Toggle Essential Properties Panel`, and similar panel actions sometimes reporting `Window menu item not found` on Windows.
- Fixed non-panel Window menu entries such as `Composition: (none)` and `Timeline: (none)` appearing as actions on Windows.
- Fixed several shutdown-related stability issues that could occur while User Script watch folders, Connection Doctor reports, or pending interface updates were still active.
- Fixed screenshots potentially using an incorrect black background when After Effects could not provide the composition's background colour.
- Fixed imported toolbars with missing or similarly named icon files sometimes failing unnecessarily or replacing one icon with another.
- Fixed some imported toolbar icons constructed out of SVG paths appearing malformed in global action notification toasts.
1.4.1 -
Jul 10, 2026
Added
- Added support for After Effects' Crop Comp to Selected Layer Bounds command in Command Frame for After Effects 2026.
- Added optional notification toast and sound feedback for standard After Effects shortcuts with a new `Enable feedback for most standard After Effects shortcuts` setting. This is disabled by default.
Changed
- Commands that only work with 2D layer selections now update more accurately when the selected layer state changes, such as when switching between 2D and 3D layers.
- Effect commands now show as unavailable when the selected layer cannot have effects applied, such as cameras and lights.
- Layer creation commands now place new layers directly above the selected layer when a layer is selected, instead of always adding them to the top of the comp.
Fixed
- Fixed `Create Camera` and `Create Light` commands not working to produce timeline layers directly.
- Fixed saved actions that apply effects not always reflecting whether the current selected layer supports effects.
- Fixed shortcuts sometimes running while typing into Command Frame shortcut fields.
- Fixed single-key shortcuts sometimes running while typing in the search field after executing a layer result with Enter.
- Fixed long imported toolbar action titles overlapping other text in the shortcut section of action details.
- Fixed a bug affecting shortcuts on Windows.
- Added support for After Effects' Crop Comp to Selected Layer Bounds command in Command Frame for After Effects 2026.
- Added optional notification toast and sound feedback for standard After Effects shortcuts with a new `Enable feedback for most standard After Effects shortcuts` setting. This is disabled by default.
Changed
- Commands that only work with 2D layer selections now update more accurately when the selected layer state changes, such as when switching between 2D and 3D layers.
- Effect commands now show as unavailable when the selected layer cannot have effects applied, such as cameras and lights.
- Layer creation commands now place new layers directly above the selected layer when a layer is selected, instead of always adding them to the top of the comp.
Fixed
- Fixed `Create Camera` and `Create Light` commands not working to produce timeline layers directly.
- Fixed saved actions that apply effects not always reflecting whether the current selected layer supports effects.
- Fixed shortcuts sometimes running while typing into Command Frame shortcut fields.
- Fixed single-key shortcuts sometimes running while typing in the search field after executing a layer result with Enter.
- Fixed long imported toolbar action titles overlapping other text in the shortcut section of action details.
- Fixed a bug affecting shortcuts on Windows.
1.4 -
Jun 21, 2026
Added
- Added a new tutorial mode that can guide you through actions inside a real After Effects project. Tutorials can now puppet After Effects to open compositions, change selections, move the current time indicator, and show the result directly, simulating how different actions work in a real demonstrative project file instead of only pointing at Command Frame's own interface.
- Added the first project-based "Show Me" tutorials for Select Every Other Layer, Control Groups, and Compstronaut, using a dedicated demo scene that demonstrates those tools directly in After Effects.
- Added Show Me walkthroughs to 21 Hook actions. Open an action's detail view and choose Show Me to see a short guided example of what that action does. This is the first batch, and the list will continue to expand over time.
- Reworked the tutorial to work as a data format (JSON) designed to be shareable and ingestible by Command Frame, so future importable actions can bring their own action-specific walkthroughs and guided examples into Command Frame over time. This opens the door to much richer in-product learning and help across future integrations.
- Added optional global notification toasts for Command Frame action results, ported from the notification system used in Control Groups, Select Every Other Layer and Compstronaut, and use the same shared notification queue. These toasts can appear near the mouse, at the current mouse position, or at a saved screen position, so action feedback remains visible even when Command Frame itself isn't visible.
- Added global toast feedback for successful actions, warnings, errors, and rejected actions; each type can be turned on or off independently. These include support for action-specific icons and names; Command Frame can use built-in action icons, imported toolbar icons, Font Awesome glyphs, Material glyphs, text glyphs, SVG/file/qrc/data icons, and custom icon colours where available.
- Added a notification settings section in the General tab of the settings page for controlling global action notification toasts, warning/error notifications, and toast placement using the same interaction pattern as Command Frame's saved panel position controls.
- Significantly improved performance.
- Added customisable sound effects to Command Frame.
- Added bundled sound effects for Command Frame opening, successful action completion, and warnings/errors.
- Added an audio options section in Settings for turning sound effects on or off and controlling the global SFX volume.
- Added the ability to assign custom sound effects for individual actions. Open an action's detail view to assign a sound file; when that action completes successfully, Command Frame plays the assigned sound instead of the default success sound.
- Added a Sound Effects section in the Config tab in Settings, where Command Frame's bundled sounds can be previewed or changed. Custom action sound effects appear in this section after assignment, and are removed from that list when their file path is cleared.
- Added a new custom colour picker tool for UI-based colour selection in Command Frame. Drag to select colour, use the mouse wheel for brightness, and Enter/Return to confirm.
- Added a custom panel outline colour option alongside the existing outline presets in Accessibility Settings.
- Added an Icon Colours section in the Config tab in Settings for changing Command Frame's built-in icon colours, including shared colours for Effects, Layers, Hooks, Screenshot, and Composition actions.
- Added an eased colour animation transition for UI colour changes, such as for the panel outline.
- Added a Command Frame logo for Command-Frame-specific commands.
- To complement warnings/error messages and panel shake animations, a warning sound is now also played, providing another layer of feedback, particularly when Command Frame's panel is closed, or notification toasts are disabled.
- Added User Script watch folders. Choose a folder in Settings, and Command Frame will automatically add supported script files directly inside that folder as User Script actions. Only watch folders' top-level contents are scanned - subfolders are not scanned. Watched scripts update when files are added or removed, can be paused by folder, and show a Watch Folder badge so they are easy to distinguish from individually imported scripts.
- Recognised Scripts with recommended argument actions are added with those actions automatically when they come from a watch folder.
- Rename can now target selected items in After Effects' Project window. If only timeline layers are selected, `rename X` renames those layers; if only Project items are selected, it renames those Project items. If both are selected, Rename continues to target the timeline layer selection, matching the most common animation and editing UI state and workflow expectation.
- Layer creation commands can now be chained more naturally with follow-up layer commands. For example, `create null & rename "Example Null"` creates a null, selects it, and then renames it in the same command.
- Added a new option to open Settings in an expanded view. The change takes effect the next time Command Frame is summoned.
- Added a new setting to control whether screenshots should retain the composition's alpha channels.
- Added a Windows-only screenshot option for how Save and Reveal behaves with File Explorer. Command Frame can now either bring File Explorer forward when needed or quietly reuse an existing window for that folder, without reactivating it on later reveals.
- Added built-in support for more After Effects Keyboard Shortcuts commands directly in Command Frame, including commands that are not currently assigned a shortcut in After Effects.
- Added more built-in After Effects shortcut commands in Command Frame, including frame stepping, in/out point commands, keyframe navigation, Graph Editor, and comprehensive layer-property reveal commands.
- Added new layer-selection commands for selecting layers by label colour. For example, `select label red`, `select label sandstone`, and `select labels dark green`.
- Added new layer-selection commands for selecting layers by type, including cameras, lights, text layers, shape layers, nulls, solids, footage, and pre-comps. These commands also understand common shorthand, such as `select comps` and `select compositions`.
- Added new Select Every Other Layer Hook actions for selecting parent layers, child layers, and track matte source layers from the current layer selection.
Changed
- Tutorials are no longer limited to interface-only guidance. Command Frame's tutorial system has been reworked so that a walkthrough can either explain the panel itself or demonstrate an action directly inside After Effects, depending on what makes the most sense for that action.
- Hook actions from connected products can now declare when they provide their own notification toasts or sound effects, so Command Frame avoids adding duplicate feedback on top of the source product's own behaviour.
- Hook actions now pipe icons, if present, to Command Frame, including in search results and notification toasts.
- More consistent icon and text styling usage across Command Frame and its documentation.
- Various icons have been updated to use a thicker, more legible style.
- Deselect All now also deselects Project window items.
- Deselect All now also considers the Control Group selection state of the Control Groups extension/Hook action when the command action availability is decided.
- Deselect All now also considers whether there are any Project window items selected when the command action availability is decided.
- Control Groups' duplicate Deselect All action no longer appears in Command Frame search, since Command Frame's built-in Deselect All now covers the same workflow. Several other Hook actions have also been suppressed from appearing in the Command Frame.
- Improved responsiveness and reliability for After Effects Keyboard Shortcuts commands, especially while After Effects is busy.
- Timeline, layer navigation, and related navigation-style commands now feel significantly faster and more consistent.
- Layer-as-actions (read: individual layer exposed as unique action in Command Frame's search results) trigger timeline navigation deterministically; Command Frame will now navigate the timeline vertically and horizontally to layers significantly faster and more reliably.
- After Effects Keyboard Shortcut commands in Command Frame no longer depend on macOS Accessibility permissions to run.
Fixed
- Fixed imported scripts from toolbars appearing in the User Scripts section in the settings page.
- Fixed bulk-imported known-argument script actions lacking icons in their previews in the resulting import popup window.
- Fixed SBSM notification toasts appearing underneath Command Frame's tooltips and tutorial overlays.
- Fixed standard keyboard controls for toolbars not functioning on macOS.
- Fixed Command Frame briefly flashing while After Effects starts.
- Fixed the connection doctor failing to read the current After Effects version.
- Fixed screenshots not using timestamp-based filenames by default.
- Fixed a bug that would cause screenshots to incorrectly render as transparent or darkened.
- Fixed the Save and Reveal screenshot action on macOS, sometimes activating Finder as the front-most window and then immediately dropping it back behind After Effects when using screenshot actions or the Reveal in Finder command.
- Fixed the Reveal in Finder command on macOS, sometimes snapping focus back to After Effects instead of leaving Finder visible.
- Fixed Command Frame opening away from the cursor on Windows when using Current Mouse Position on Windows when using resolution scaling options.
- Fixed Command Frame click-off-panel-dismissal inaccurately assessing mouse-click position on Windows when using resolution scaling options.
- Fixed some navigation-style commands being affected by held keys or modifiers.
- Fixed a startup crash related to toolbar logic.
- Fixed some After Effects Keyboard Shortcut commands that felt inconsistent or unavailable depending on the current After Effects shortcut set.
- Added a new tutorial mode that can guide you through actions inside a real After Effects project. Tutorials can now puppet After Effects to open compositions, change selections, move the current time indicator, and show the result directly, simulating how different actions work in a real demonstrative project file instead of only pointing at Command Frame's own interface.
- Added the first project-based "Show Me" tutorials for Select Every Other Layer, Control Groups, and Compstronaut, using a dedicated demo scene that demonstrates those tools directly in After Effects.
- Added Show Me walkthroughs to 21 Hook actions. Open an action's detail view and choose Show Me to see a short guided example of what that action does. This is the first batch, and the list will continue to expand over time.
- Reworked the tutorial to work as a data format (JSON) designed to be shareable and ingestible by Command Frame, so future importable actions can bring their own action-specific walkthroughs and guided examples into Command Frame over time. This opens the door to much richer in-product learning and help across future integrations.
- Added optional global notification toasts for Command Frame action results, ported from the notification system used in Control Groups, Select Every Other Layer and Compstronaut, and use the same shared notification queue. These toasts can appear near the mouse, at the current mouse position, or at a saved screen position, so action feedback remains visible even when Command Frame itself isn't visible.
- Added global toast feedback for successful actions, warnings, errors, and rejected actions; each type can be turned on or off independently. These include support for action-specific icons and names; Command Frame can use built-in action icons, imported toolbar icons, Font Awesome glyphs, Material glyphs, text glyphs, SVG/file/qrc/data icons, and custom icon colours where available.
- Added a notification settings section in the General tab of the settings page for controlling global action notification toasts, warning/error notifications, and toast placement using the same interaction pattern as Command Frame's saved panel position controls.
- Significantly improved performance.
- Added customisable sound effects to Command Frame.
- Added bundled sound effects for Command Frame opening, successful action completion, and warnings/errors.
- Added an audio options section in Settings for turning sound effects on or off and controlling the global SFX volume.
- Added the ability to assign custom sound effects for individual actions. Open an action's detail view to assign a sound file; when that action completes successfully, Command Frame plays the assigned sound instead of the default success sound.
- Added a Sound Effects section in the Config tab in Settings, where Command Frame's bundled sounds can be previewed or changed. Custom action sound effects appear in this section after assignment, and are removed from that list when their file path is cleared.
- Added a new custom colour picker tool for UI-based colour selection in Command Frame. Drag to select colour, use the mouse wheel for brightness, and Enter/Return to confirm.
- Added a custom panel outline colour option alongside the existing outline presets in Accessibility Settings.
- Added an Icon Colours section in the Config tab in Settings for changing Command Frame's built-in icon colours, including shared colours for Effects, Layers, Hooks, Screenshot, and Composition actions.
- Added an eased colour animation transition for UI colour changes, such as for the panel outline.
- Added a Command Frame logo for Command-Frame-specific commands.
- To complement warnings/error messages and panel shake animations, a warning sound is now also played, providing another layer of feedback, particularly when Command Frame's panel is closed, or notification toasts are disabled.
- Added User Script watch folders. Choose a folder in Settings, and Command Frame will automatically add supported script files directly inside that folder as User Script actions. Only watch folders' top-level contents are scanned - subfolders are not scanned. Watched scripts update when files are added or removed, can be paused by folder, and show a Watch Folder badge so they are easy to distinguish from individually imported scripts.
- Recognised Scripts with recommended argument actions are added with those actions automatically when they come from a watch folder.
- Rename can now target selected items in After Effects' Project window. If only timeline layers are selected, `rename X` renames those layers; if only Project items are selected, it renames those Project items. If both are selected, Rename continues to target the timeline layer selection, matching the most common animation and editing UI state and workflow expectation.
- Layer creation commands can now be chained more naturally with follow-up layer commands. For example, `create null & rename "Example Null"` creates a null, selects it, and then renames it in the same command.
- Added a new option to open Settings in an expanded view. The change takes effect the next time Command Frame is summoned.
- Added a new setting to control whether screenshots should retain the composition's alpha channels.
- Added a Windows-only screenshot option for how Save and Reveal behaves with File Explorer. Command Frame can now either bring File Explorer forward when needed or quietly reuse an existing window for that folder, without reactivating it on later reveals.
- Added built-in support for more After Effects Keyboard Shortcuts commands directly in Command Frame, including commands that are not currently assigned a shortcut in After Effects.
- Added more built-in After Effects shortcut commands in Command Frame, including frame stepping, in/out point commands, keyframe navigation, Graph Editor, and comprehensive layer-property reveal commands.
- Added new layer-selection commands for selecting layers by label colour. For example, `select label red`, `select label sandstone`, and `select labels dark green`.
- Added new layer-selection commands for selecting layers by type, including cameras, lights, text layers, shape layers, nulls, solids, footage, and pre-comps. These commands also understand common shorthand, such as `select comps` and `select compositions`.
- Added new Select Every Other Layer Hook actions for selecting parent layers, child layers, and track matte source layers from the current layer selection.
Changed
- Tutorials are no longer limited to interface-only guidance. Command Frame's tutorial system has been reworked so that a walkthrough can either explain the panel itself or demonstrate an action directly inside After Effects, depending on what makes the most sense for that action.
- Hook actions from connected products can now declare when they provide their own notification toasts or sound effects, so Command Frame avoids adding duplicate feedback on top of the source product's own behaviour.
- Hook actions now pipe icons, if present, to Command Frame, including in search results and notification toasts.
- More consistent icon and text styling usage across Command Frame and its documentation.
- Various icons have been updated to use a thicker, more legible style.
- Deselect All now also deselects Project window items.
- Deselect All now also considers the Control Group selection state of the Control Groups extension/Hook action when the command action availability is decided.
- Deselect All now also considers whether there are any Project window items selected when the command action availability is decided.
- Control Groups' duplicate Deselect All action no longer appears in Command Frame search, since Command Frame's built-in Deselect All now covers the same workflow. Several other Hook actions have also been suppressed from appearing in the Command Frame.
- Improved responsiveness and reliability for After Effects Keyboard Shortcuts commands, especially while After Effects is busy.
- Timeline, layer navigation, and related navigation-style commands now feel significantly faster and more consistent.
- Layer-as-actions (read: individual layer exposed as unique action in Command Frame's search results) trigger timeline navigation deterministically; Command Frame will now navigate the timeline vertically and horizontally to layers significantly faster and more reliably.
- After Effects Keyboard Shortcut commands in Command Frame no longer depend on macOS Accessibility permissions to run.
Fixed
- Fixed imported scripts from toolbars appearing in the User Scripts section in the settings page.
- Fixed bulk-imported known-argument script actions lacking icons in their previews in the resulting import popup window.
- Fixed SBSM notification toasts appearing underneath Command Frame's tooltips and tutorial overlays.
- Fixed standard keyboard controls for toolbars not functioning on macOS.
- Fixed Command Frame briefly flashing while After Effects starts.
- Fixed the connection doctor failing to read the current After Effects version.
- Fixed screenshots not using timestamp-based filenames by default.
- Fixed a bug that would cause screenshots to incorrectly render as transparent or darkened.
- Fixed the Save and Reveal screenshot action on macOS, sometimes activating Finder as the front-most window and then immediately dropping it back behind After Effects when using screenshot actions or the Reveal in Finder command.
- Fixed the Reveal in Finder command on macOS, sometimes snapping focus back to After Effects instead of leaving Finder visible.
- Fixed Command Frame opening away from the cursor on Windows when using Current Mouse Position on Windows when using resolution scaling options.
- Fixed Command Frame click-off-panel-dismissal inaccurately assessing mouse-click position on Windows when using resolution scaling options.
- Fixed some navigation-style commands being affected by held keys or modifiers.
- Fixed a startup crash related to toolbar logic.
- Fixed some After Effects Keyboard Shortcut commands that felt inconsistent or unavailable depending on the current After Effects shortcut set.
1.3.2 -
Jun 6, 2026
Added
- Added Font Awesome 4 icon support for imported toolbars.
- Added the ability to overwrite an action's shortcut when attempting to assign its shortcut to another action, with an accompanying warning dialogue requesting confirmation before applying the overwrite.
- Added the ability to replace an AE-shortcut-command-based action's existing After-Effects-based shortcut when assigning a shortcut to it from within Command Frame.
- Added a new setting that allows Command Frame to replace conflicting shortcuts automatically without asking each time. This accompanies the new shortcut overwrite feature.
Changed
- Improved shortcut latency and responsiveness; shortcuts should be faster to respond and less likely to be missed while After Effects is busy.
- Improved reliability in how Command Frame finds the active After Effects shortcut preference file.
- Command Frame now applies changes to AE-shortcut-command-based commands' shortcuts immediately without needing to restart AE or open AE's Keyboard Shortcuts window. These types of actions now feel much more integrated and less clumsy to manage within Command Frame.
- Vanilla After Effects panels, and search-window actions, now have lower default rankings in Command Frame's search, and are now less likely to appear for related search terms (e.g., searching "Fill" should stop floating "Toggle Content-Aware Fill Panel" as high in the results).
- Minor settings organisation and wording cleanup.
Fixed
- Fixed some imported toolbars opening with missing or blank button icons when Font Awesome was not installed.
- Fixed some function keys appearing unavailable in Command Frame even when After Effects did not show a visible command using them.
- Fixed some AE-shortcut-command-based actions appearing in Command Frame even when the active After Effects shortcut file did not contain them. These actions are now hidden from normal search results and show a clearer reason for unavailability when opened directly.
- Fixed a bug which caused the search scrollbar to appear in the initial pill shape Command Frame occasionally summons into.
- Fixed Command Frame shortcuts running while typing into an After Effects text layer.
- Added Font Awesome 4 icon support for imported toolbars.
- Added the ability to overwrite an action's shortcut when attempting to assign its shortcut to another action, with an accompanying warning dialogue requesting confirmation before applying the overwrite.
- Added the ability to replace an AE-shortcut-command-based action's existing After-Effects-based shortcut when assigning a shortcut to it from within Command Frame.
- Added a new setting that allows Command Frame to replace conflicting shortcuts automatically without asking each time. This accompanies the new shortcut overwrite feature.
Changed
- Improved shortcut latency and responsiveness; shortcuts should be faster to respond and less likely to be missed while After Effects is busy.
- Improved reliability in how Command Frame finds the active After Effects shortcut preference file.
- Command Frame now applies changes to AE-shortcut-command-based commands' shortcuts immediately without needing to restart AE or open AE's Keyboard Shortcuts window. These types of actions now feel much more integrated and less clumsy to manage within Command Frame.
- Vanilla After Effects panels, and search-window actions, now have lower default rankings in Command Frame's search, and are now less likely to appear for related search terms (e.g., searching "Fill" should stop floating "Toggle Content-Aware Fill Panel" as high in the results).
- Minor settings organisation and wording cleanup.
Fixed
- Fixed some imported toolbars opening with missing or blank button icons when Font Awesome was not installed.
- Fixed some function keys appearing unavailable in Command Frame even when After Effects did not show a visible command using them.
- Fixed some AE-shortcut-command-based actions appearing in Command Frame even when the active After Effects shortcut file did not contain them. These actions are now hidden from normal search results and show a clearer reason for unavailability when opened directly.
- Fixed a bug which caused the search scrollbar to appear in the initial pill shape Command Frame occasionally summons into.
- Fixed Command Frame shortcuts running while typing into an After Effects text layer.
1.3.1b -
May 31, 2026
Changed
- 1.3 features for macOS have been restored following the temporary rollback for Command Frame.
- Improved syncing with SBShortcutManager to reduce startup and reconnect latency.
Fixed
- Fixed an instability issue affecting macOS, which produced consistent crashes on startup.
- 1.3 features for macOS have been restored following the temporary rollback for Command Frame.
- Improved syncing with SBShortcutManager to reduce startup and reconnect latency.
Fixed
- Fixed an instability issue affecting macOS, which produced consistent crashes on startup.
1.3.1 -
May 29, 2026
Changed
- Temporary rollback for macOS.
- Temporary rollback for macOS.
1.3 -
May 28, 2026
Added
- Added an Accessibility section in Settings. This is the first pass at addressing accessibility in Command Frame.
- Added a reduced motion setting, which makes various animations instant. Critical feedback, tutorials, and attention indicators remain unchanged.
- Added an optional Panel outline setting for extra visibility or customisation. The outline can be thin, standard, or thick, with white, carbon, argent, red, blue, green, and orange colour options.
- Added support for assigning function keys, such as F1, as well as keypad keys and more special keys to shortcuts.
- Added an optional setting to dismiss Command Frame when clicking outside it.
- Added an optional setting to clear the search field after a successful search action.
- Added scrolling support for very large imported toolbars.
Changed
- Command Frame now reopens with an empty search field by default. The previous behaviour can still be enabled in Settings with `Restore the previous query when Command Frame reopens`.
- Improved imported toolbar icon rendering so text and named icon buttons stay visible, centred, and contained in both toolbar buttons and search results.
- Improved imported toolbar icon rendering so named icons can use the matching installed icon font when it is available.
- Moved toolbar button descriptions to appear directly under the toolbar title.
Fixed
- Fixed some KBar toolbar files failing to import with "Unable to open archive" even when the toolbar data could still be read.
- Fixed imported toolbar keyboard navigation so the arrow keys move predictably between the visible neighbouring buttons.
- Fixed Escape handling while a popup is open, so Escape closes the popup before Command Frame handles normal panel navigation or dismissal.
- Fixed a context-menu flicker where the window-position menu could briefly reappear when Command Frame was dismissed with a keyboard shortcut.
- Fixed shortcut clearing and reassignment for certain actions whose names included characters such as /.
- Fixed some Windows installations of localised After Effects effect names not appearing in Command Frame's search. This primarily affected localised effect names containing non-ASCII characters.
- Fixed a macOS issue where After Effects dialogs, such as save, open, or quit prompts, could become difficult or impossible to use while Command Frame was stacked on top.
- Added an Accessibility section in Settings. This is the first pass at addressing accessibility in Command Frame.
- Added a reduced motion setting, which makes various animations instant. Critical feedback, tutorials, and attention indicators remain unchanged.
- Added an optional Panel outline setting for extra visibility or customisation. The outline can be thin, standard, or thick, with white, carbon, argent, red, blue, green, and orange colour options.
- Added support for assigning function keys, such as F1, as well as keypad keys and more special keys to shortcuts.
- Added an optional setting to dismiss Command Frame when clicking outside it.
- Added an optional setting to clear the search field after a successful search action.
- Added scrolling support for very large imported toolbars.
Changed
- Command Frame now reopens with an empty search field by default. The previous behaviour can still be enabled in Settings with `Restore the previous query when Command Frame reopens`.
- Improved imported toolbar icon rendering so text and named icon buttons stay visible, centred, and contained in both toolbar buttons and search results.
- Improved imported toolbar icon rendering so named icons can use the matching installed icon font when it is available.
- Moved toolbar button descriptions to appear directly under the toolbar title.
Fixed
- Fixed some KBar toolbar files failing to import with "Unable to open archive" even when the toolbar data could still be read.
- Fixed imported toolbar keyboard navigation so the arrow keys move predictably between the visible neighbouring buttons.
- Fixed Escape handling while a popup is open, so Escape closes the popup before Command Frame handles normal panel navigation or dismissal.
- Fixed a context-menu flicker where the window-position menu could briefly reappear when Command Frame was dismissed with a keyboard shortcut.
- Fixed shortcut clearing and reassignment for certain actions whose names included characters such as /.
- Fixed some Windows installations of localised After Effects effect names not appearing in Command Frame's search. This primarily affected localised effect names containing non-ASCII characters.
- Fixed a macOS issue where After Effects dialogs, such as save, open, or quit prompts, could become difficult or impossible to use while Command Frame was stacked on top.
1.2 -
May 23, 2026
Added
- Added a General search setting that filters pinned actions to the current search term while you type. When the search field is empty, all pinned actions still appear.
- Added searchable toggle actions for common After Effects Window menu panels, including Effects & Presets, Motion Sketch, Project, Preview, and Render Queue.
- Added a Windows-only Hardware acceleration setting. Turning it off uses compatibility graphics after restarting After Effects.
- Added Windows crash recovery that can automatically switch Command Frame to compatibility graphics if Windows reports a matching graphics driver crash while Command Frame is opening.
- Added an After Effects notice when Command Frame cannot open because another plugin has already loaded a conflicting interface component. The notice identifies the conflicting plugin when possible and gives restart guidance.
- Added a tutorial step that points out the General settings controls for how Command Frame opens and how search behaves, making those options easier to discover.
Changed
- Improved localised search so action names with characters such as ä, ö, ü, and ß are easier to find, including names split by punctuation such as slashes.
- Command Frame open and close actions no longer appear in the action history listing.
- Changed `Reveal Composition in Project` so a selected pre-comp layer can reveal its source composition in the After Effects Project panel. If no layers are selected, it reveals the current composition instead.
Fixed
- Fixed `Parent to New Null` so the new null is placed directly above the selected layers, and without altering the original layer selection in the timeline.
- Fixed `Parent to New Null` creating unexpected Position keyframes on animated layers.
- Fixed multi-step commands that include imported toolbar actions so later steps continue after the toolbar action finishes.
- Fixed imported toolbars missing button icons when the icon was text-based.
- Fixed imported toolbars using text and named glyph icons appearing in toolbar buttons without their original colours.
- Fixed Saved Position so Command Frame reopens at the recorded location instead of reopening at the current mouse position.
- Fixed macOS search-field shortcuts such as Command+A, Command+C, Command+V, and Command+X so they edit the search text instead of being passed to After Effects. This also works when Control and Command are swapped in macOS keyboard settings.
- Fixed Command Frame's "Do not attempt to load in multiple instances of After Effects" guard. Command Frame now only attempts to load when actually running as part of After Effects, rather than in headless instances or renderers such as Premiere Pro's Dynamic Link.
- Added a General search setting that filters pinned actions to the current search term while you type. When the search field is empty, all pinned actions still appear.
- Added searchable toggle actions for common After Effects Window menu panels, including Effects & Presets, Motion Sketch, Project, Preview, and Render Queue.
- Added a Windows-only Hardware acceleration setting. Turning it off uses compatibility graphics after restarting After Effects.
- Added Windows crash recovery that can automatically switch Command Frame to compatibility graphics if Windows reports a matching graphics driver crash while Command Frame is opening.
- Added an After Effects notice when Command Frame cannot open because another plugin has already loaded a conflicting interface component. The notice identifies the conflicting plugin when possible and gives restart guidance.
- Added a tutorial step that points out the General settings controls for how Command Frame opens and how search behaves, making those options easier to discover.
Changed
- Improved localised search so action names with characters such as ä, ö, ü, and ß are easier to find, including names split by punctuation such as slashes.
- Command Frame open and close actions no longer appear in the action history listing.
- Changed `Reveal Composition in Project` so a selected pre-comp layer can reveal its source composition in the After Effects Project panel. If no layers are selected, it reveals the current composition instead.
Fixed
- Fixed `Parent to New Null` so the new null is placed directly above the selected layers, and without altering the original layer selection in the timeline.
- Fixed `Parent to New Null` creating unexpected Position keyframes on animated layers.
- Fixed multi-step commands that include imported toolbar actions so later steps continue after the toolbar action finishes.
- Fixed imported toolbars missing button icons when the icon was text-based.
- Fixed imported toolbars using text and named glyph icons appearing in toolbar buttons without their original colours.
- Fixed Saved Position so Command Frame reopens at the recorded location instead of reopening at the current mouse position.
- Fixed macOS search-field shortcuts such as Command+A, Command+C, Command+V, and Command+X so they edit the search text instead of being passed to After Effects. This also works when Control and Command are swapped in macOS keyboard settings.
- Fixed Command Frame's "Do not attempt to load in multiple instances of After Effects" guard. Command Frame now only attempts to load when actually running as part of After Effects, rather than in headless instances or renderers such as Premiere Pro's Dynamic Link.
1.1.1 -
May 17, 2026
Added
- Added full support for invoking installed After Effects CEP extensions and ScriptUI Panels via actions in Command Frame.
Changed
- Improved Control Groups search behaviour when layer-group actions and the Control Groups panel are both available.
- Improved installed panel search results so ScriptUI Panels, CEP extensions, and native panels use clearer labels and badges.
- Improved multi-step layer creation commands so follow-up layer actions can run more reliably after creating a new solid, null, shape layer, light, or camera.
Fixed
- Fixed a bug that prevented the Command Frame tutorial from functioning on Windows.
- Fixed ScriptUI Panel actions so verified panels can open from Command Frame instead of appearing without launching their panel.
- Fixed several invalid or internal extension entries appearing as installed panel actions.
- Fixed built-in After Effects panels, such as Properties and Effects & Presets, incorrectly appearing as installed plugin panel actions.
- Fixed a Windows issue where Command Frame could take longer than expected to reopen after being dismissed.
- Added additional Windows safety handling around showing and hiding Command Frame's floating UI.
- Added full support for invoking installed After Effects CEP extensions and ScriptUI Panels via actions in Command Frame.
Changed
- Improved Control Groups search behaviour when layer-group actions and the Control Groups panel are both available.
- Improved installed panel search results so ScriptUI Panels, CEP extensions, and native panels use clearer labels and badges.
- Improved multi-step layer creation commands so follow-up layer actions can run more reliably after creating a new solid, null, shape layer, light, or camera.
Fixed
- Fixed a bug that prevented the Command Frame tutorial from functioning on Windows.
- Fixed ScriptUI Panel actions so verified panels can open from Command Frame instead of appearing without launching their panel.
- Fixed several invalid or internal extension entries appearing as installed panel actions.
- Fixed built-in After Effects panels, such as Properties and Effects & Presets, incorrectly appearing as installed plugin panel actions.
- Fixed a Windows issue where Command Frame could take longer than expected to reopen after being dismissed.
- Added additional Windows safety handling around showing and hiding Command Frame's floating UI.
1.1 -
May 16, 2026
Added
- Added a General setting for dismissing Command Frame by right-clicking the search field. Enabled by default.
- Added support for mixed absolute and relative values in multi-value property commands, such as `position 130 +0 +0`.
- Added installed CEP extensions in Command Frame search so they can be opened directly from the action list.
- Added `Reveal Current Composition in Project` so the active composition can be selected in the After Effects Project panel, even when no layers are selected.
- Added the `Select Next Effect`/ `Select Next Layer` shortcut action.
- Added the `Extend Selection to Next Effect` / `Extend Selection to Next Layer` shortcut action.
- Added the `Select Previous Effect` / `Select Previous Layer` shortcut action.
- Added the `Extend Selection to Previous Effect` / `Extend Selection to Previous Layer` shortcut action.
Changed
- First pass at implementing Script-UI panels as actions. These are currently inert but will be fixed in an upcoming hotfix.
Fixed
- Additional safety hardening logic for the Windows GUI.
- Fixed composition search results not dismissing Command Frame after opening a composition when auto-dismiss was enabled.
- Fixed supported hook actions not dismissing Command Frame after they finished successfully when auto-dismiss was enabled.
- Fixed text-only history items (i.e., inert search terms) providing no feedback when alt-clicked. Command Frame now provides feedback that the sequence of attempting to expand action options on these types of history entries is invalid.
- Fixed chained CTI commands so relative CTI steps use the timeline position created by earlier steps in the same command.
- Fixed frame-based CTI and Shift commands using the wrong frame offset in higher-frame-rate compositions.
- Added a General setting for dismissing Command Frame by right-clicking the search field. Enabled by default.
- Added support for mixed absolute and relative values in multi-value property commands, such as `position 130 +0 +0`.
- Added installed CEP extensions in Command Frame search so they can be opened directly from the action list.
- Added `Reveal Current Composition in Project` so the active composition can be selected in the After Effects Project panel, even when no layers are selected.
- Added the `Select Next Effect`/ `Select Next Layer` shortcut action.
- Added the `Extend Selection to Next Effect` / `Extend Selection to Next Layer` shortcut action.
- Added the `Select Previous Effect` / `Select Previous Layer` shortcut action.
- Added the `Extend Selection to Previous Effect` / `Extend Selection to Previous Layer` shortcut action.
Changed
- First pass at implementing Script-UI panels as actions. These are currently inert but will be fixed in an upcoming hotfix.
Fixed
- Additional safety hardening logic for the Windows GUI.
- Fixed composition search results not dismissing Command Frame after opening a composition when auto-dismiss was enabled.
- Fixed supported hook actions not dismissing Command Frame after they finished successfully when auto-dismiss was enabled.
- Fixed text-only history items (i.e., inert search terms) providing no feedback when alt-clicked. Command Frame now provides feedback that the sequence of attempting to expand action options on these types of history entries is invalid.
- Fixed chained CTI commands so relative CTI steps use the timeline position created by earlier steps in the same command.
- Fixed frame-based CTI and Shift commands using the wrong frame offset in higher-frame-rate compositions.
1.0.5 -
May 15, 2026
Added
- Added broader support-friendly path diagnostics to help troubleshoot startup, SBShortcutManager connection, and After Effects preferences access issues without exposing full local paths.
- Expanded the Connection Doctor to generate additional system diagnostics.
Changed
- Improved how Command Frame and SBShortcutManager handle Windows folders and files when user profile paths contain non-ASCII characters.
- Improved reliability around settings, logs, command history, preset discovery, and After Effects shortcut preference files on Windows.
- Minor performance bump from internal catalog optimisation.
Fixed
- Fixed several Windows file path handling issues that could affect startup, SBShortcutManager connection, and After Effects shortcut preference access from profiles or folders with non-ASCII characters.
- Added broader support-friendly path diagnostics to help troubleshoot startup, SBShortcutManager connection, and After Effects preferences access issues without exposing full local paths.
- Expanded the Connection Doctor to generate additional system diagnostics.
Changed
- Improved how Command Frame and SBShortcutManager handle Windows folders and files when user profile paths contain non-ASCII characters.
- Improved reliability around settings, logs, command history, preset discovery, and After Effects shortcut preference files on Windows.
- Minor performance bump from internal catalog optimisation.
Fixed
- Fixed several Windows file path handling issues that could affect startup, SBShortcutManager connection, and After Effects shortcut preference access from profiles or folders with non-ASCII characters.
1.0.4 -
May 14, 2026
Added
- Expanded the Connection Doctor with additional diagnostics for troubleshooting.
Changed
- Signposted the Readme more clearly in error scenarios.
Fixed
- Fixed a bug on Windows 11 which caused Command Frame to think text fields were perpetually active, preventing the summon/dismiss shortcut from working.
- Improved performance in recognising text field selection on Windows 11.
- Fixed a 'tink' sound that was playing in Command Frame on macOS when the summon/dismiss shortcut was run.
- Added safey guards to prevent crashing when file paths include unexpected characters.
- Expanded the Connection Doctor with additional diagnostics for troubleshooting.
Changed
- Signposted the Readme more clearly in error scenarios.
Fixed
- Fixed a bug on Windows 11 which caused Command Frame to think text fields were perpetually active, preventing the summon/dismiss shortcut from working.
- Improved performance in recognising text field selection on Windows 11.
- Fixed a 'tink' sound that was playing in Command Frame on macOS when the summon/dismiss shortcut was run.
- Added safey guards to prevent crashing when file paths include unexpected characters.
1.0.3 -
May 14, 2026
Added
- Added Connection Doctor to Settings -> Privacy and Maintenance, making it easier to check Command Frame's SBShortcutManager connection and copy a support-friendly report when needed.
Fixed
- Improved SBShortcutManager connection detection, especially when another local extension service is active in the same connection channel.
- Improved startup connection handling so Command Frame is less likely to mistake another local service for SBShortcutManager, which was preventing Command Frame from establishing a connection.
Changed
- Improved the macOS plugin package so Command Frame and SBShortcutManager are identified more consistently by macOS and After Effects.
- Added Connection Doctor to Settings -> Privacy and Maintenance, making it easier to check Command Frame's SBShortcutManager connection and copy a support-friendly report when needed.
Fixed
- Improved SBShortcutManager connection detection, especially when another local extension service is active in the same connection channel.
- Improved startup connection handling so Command Frame is less likely to mistake another local service for SBShortcutManager, which was preventing Command Frame from establishing a connection.
Changed
- Improved the macOS plugin package so Command Frame and SBShortcutManager are identified more consistently by macOS and After Effects.
1.0.2 -
May 13, 2026
Fixed
- Fixed some multi-step commands stopping after the first step when the command required selected layers but did not alter the current selection.
- Fixed a case where Command Frame could show Another query plan is already running" after a chained command did not finish correctly.
- Improved chained layer-related commands' reliability, such as for "center anchor point", "reverse layer order", "duplicate", and layer creation commands when followed by another command.
- Fixed "Split Layer" appearing available when no layer was selected.
- Fixed some multi-step commands stopping after the first step when the command required selected layers but did not alter the current selection.
- Fixed a case where Command Frame could show Another query plan is already running" after a chained command did not finish correctly.
- Improved chained layer-related commands' reliability, such as for "center anchor point", "reverse layer order", "duplicate", and layer creation commands when followed by another command.
- Fixed "Split Layer" appearing available when no layer was selected.
1.0.1 -
May 12, 2026
Initial Release
Compatibility
After Effects
2027, 2026, 2025, 2024
EULA
SCOTT BLACK VISUAL EFFECTS & MOTION GRAPHICS - COMMAND FRAME - END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT
Copyright (c) 2026, Scott Black
Version 1.0 – 10 April 2026
1. Introduction and Definitions
This End User License Agreement ("EULA") is a legal agreement between you (the "User" or "Licensee") and Scott Black, operating as "Scott Black Visual Effects & Motion Graphics" (the "Developer" or "Licensor"). This EULA governs your installation, access to, and use of the software product known as Command Frame, including all components, updates, installers, example files, accompanying documentation, and associated materials supplied by the Developer, together the "Software".
By downloading, installing, accessing, or using the Software, you confirm that you have read and understood this EULA and agree to be bound by it. If you do not agree to this EULA, do not install, download, access, or use the Software.
For the purposes of this EULA:
- Software means the Command Frame software product, including any native Adobe After Effects plug-in, helper components, import and export functionality, configuration or example files, updates, patches, and related documentation supplied by the Developer.
- SBShortcutManager means the companion component used by the Software to provide shortcut, communication, or integration functionality. SBShortcutManager may be bundled with the Software or installed separately depending on the distribution format.
- Compatible Products means the Developer's separate software products that the Software may interoperate with, including Control Groups, Compstronaut, and Select Every Other Layer, plus any other products that the Developer may designate as supported in documentation.
- Third-Party Materials means any third-party software, file formats, toolbar definitions, scripts, presets, plug-ins, icons, data, or other materials that may be used with the Software, including user-supplied .kbar files.
- Authorized Distributor means aescripts + aeplugins and any other distributor explicitly authorized by the Developer.
The Software may interact with Adobe After Effects, SBShortcutManager, Compatible Products, and Third-Party Materials in order to provide its intended functionality. Any account, order, download, activation, or licensing processes handled by an Authorized Distributor are governed separately by that distributor's own terms and policies.
The fact that the Software is made available at no monetary charge does not mean it is open source, public domain, or freely redistributable.
2. Grant of License
Subject to your compliance with this EULA, the Developer grants you a personal, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable licence to install and use the Software for lawful personal or commercial use in connection with Adobe After Effects.
This licence is granted to use the Software, not to acquire ownership of it.
Where the Software is obtained through aescripts + aeplugins, any applicable licence type, seat limit, activation rule, or other distribution condition shown on the relevant product page, order record, or distributor documentation also applies. Aescripts states that its products are licensed, not sold, and that individual products may be subject to additional licence terms.
Unless a different licence type is expressly stated by the Authorized Distributor, this licence is intended for one user only and, where the applicable distributor licence is a Single User License, may be installed on up to two user accounts or computers controlled by that user so long as they are not used at the same time. You may make a reasonable number of backup copies of the installer or package for archival purposes only, provided those copies remain under your control and subject to this EULA.
3. Restrictions on Use
You shall not, and shall not permit any third party to:
- reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or otherwise attempt to derive source code, underlying ideas, or non-public interfaces from the Software, except to the limited extent that applicable law expressly prohibits such a restriction;
- modify, adapt, translate, or create derivative works of the Software itself, except where such rights are unavoidably required under an applicable third-party open-source licence supplied with the Software;
- copy, distribute, publish, mirror, rent, lease, lend, sell, sublicense, assign, or otherwise make the Software available to any third party except as expressly permitted by this EULA;
- redistribute the Software from any website, repository, file-sharing service, bundle, or package manager that is not expressly authorised by the Developer;
- remove, alter, or obscure any copyright notice, trademark notice, attribution, licence file, or other proprietary notice included in the Software;
- bypass, disable, defeat, or circumvent any technical, security, licensing, integrity, or anti-tamper measure included in the Software;
- use the Software to execute or distribute malware, unauthorised destructive code, infringing content, or unlawful material;
- use the Software in any manner that violates applicable law, infringes the rights of another person, or exceeds the scope of the permissions granted in this EULA; or
- use the Software in any high-risk environment where failure could lead to death, personal injury, or severe physical, environmental, or property damage.
4. Interoperability, Imported Materials, and Separate Products
The Software is designed to interoperate with Adobe After Effects, SBShortcutManager, Compatible Products, and certain Third-Party Materials, including user-supplied .kbar files.
Accordingly:
1. Some features of the Software may require SBShortcutManager, Compatible Products, or other third-party software to be separately installed, separately licensed, or separately configured.
2. The Software does not grant you any licence or rights in SBShortcutManager when supplied separately, in any Compatible Product, or in any Third-Party Material. Those items remain subject to their own terms, owners, and licence conditions.
3. Any .kbar file support is provided solely for interoperability and user convenience. The Developer does not claim ownership of the .kbar format or any third-party toolbar definitions.
4. You are solely responsible for ensuring that you have the legal right to import, use, execute, or rely on any Third-Party Materials used with the Software, including .kbar files, scripts, presets, icons, and commands referenced by them.
5. The Developer does not warrant that any Third-Party Material will be accurate, complete, safe, non-infringing, compatible, or continue to function with the Software.
6. The Developer is not responsible for the behaviour, output, legality, licensing status, or security of any Third-Party Material or any separately installed software invoked through the Software.
7. The Developer may add, change, restrict, or remove interoperability features, parsers, translators, bridges, or integrations in any future version of the Software without obligation to preserve backwards compatibility.
Because the Software may expose or launch commands defined by third parties, you should review imported or externally supplied materials before using them in production environments.
4A. Network Connectivity, Update Checks, and Telemetry
Some features of the Software may use internet connectivity when available.
In particular, the Software may connect to Developer-controlled or otherwise allowlisted online endpoints in order to check for updates, fetch release metadata, determine version availability, retrieve release notes, identify download locations, or support similar update-related functionality. Such update checks may occur automatically on startup, periodically, or when manually triggered through the Software while update checks are enabled in the Software's settings.
Update checks are intended to request release and version metadata only. They are not intended to upload project files, composition names, layer names, script contents, imported materials, or other project-authored content as part of the update-check request, except for ordinary network or device metadata inherently conveyed by internet protocols or infrastructure.
You may disable update checks using the Software's in-product update-check setting. When that setting is disabled, the Software is intended not to perform further update checks unless and until you re-enable it.
Disabling telemetry does not by itself disable update checks unless the Developer expressly states otherwise in separate documentation or in-product settings.
To help improve Command Frame, the Software may also store and, when enabled, transmit privacy-preserving usage statistics and limited diagnostic metadata to the Developer.
If telemetry is enabled, the transmitted data is limited to:
- a random pseudonymous install identifier generated by the Software, which the Developer's telemetry backend is intended to store as a keyed digest rather than as the raw identifier;
- a limited allowlisted snapshot of certain boolean Command Frame settings relevant to product behaviour;
- diagnostic action or event identifiers and aggregate counts describing which options and actions were used, including identifiers associated with imported, custom, user-script, or history-derived actions where those actions are used;
- aggregated query-recipe and failure-category statistics; and
- basic diagnostic and build metadata such as Software version, build identifier, operating system platform, and release channel.
Telemetry is not designed to include project-related information or arbitrary user-authored content. By way of example, the Software is not intended to transmit raw query text, imported content labels, file paths, project names, composition names, layer names, script contents, or other project content.
Telemetry should be treated as pseudonymous rather than anonymous. It is not intended to identify you directly, but it may distinguish one installation from another across telemetry batches.
For beta and public release builds, usage diagnostics are not submitted unless you affirmatively enable that setting.
Developer preview, alpha, test, or virtual builds keep telemetry disabled by default unless they are expressly configured for local development, diagnostics, or test use.
If you disable the "Submit Usage Diagnostics" setting, the Software will stop future telemetry submissions and clear any pending locally stored telemetry data. Server-side telemetry records already submitted may remain until ordinary retention or deletion processes apply. If you later re-enable telemetry, the Software may generate a new pseudonymous install identifier for future telemetry batches.
Telemetry is used for product improvement, product diagnostics, and service operation only. It does not create any obligation on the Developer to provide support, fixes, analytics access, or any minimum level of service.
Where the Developer provides a separate privacy notice, telemetry notice, plugin privacy policy, or beta-program notice for the Software, that notice supplements this Section 4A. The Developer's plugin privacy notice is intended to be made available at https://www.scottblack.me/plugin-privacy-policy or a successor URL.
4B. Pre-Release, Beta, and Evaluation Builds
If the Software, or any build, feature, channel, or component of it, is identified by the Developer as a beta, closed beta, alpha, preview, test, evaluation, early access, release candidate, experimental, pre-release, or similar build ("Pre-Release Software"), the following additional terms apply:
1. Pre-Release Software is not final and is provided for evaluation, testing, and feedback purposes.
2. Pre-Release Software may contain bugs, errors, security vulnerabilities, incomplete features, interruptions, incompatibilities, and other defects, and may operate differently from any later public or commercial release.
3. Pre-Release Software may be modified, restricted, suspended, replaced, or withdrawn at any time, with or without notice. The Developer has no obligation to continue, support, commercialise, or publicly release any Pre-Release Software or any feature included in it.
4. Pre-Release Software is not intended for production, live, revenue-critical, client-critical, or business-critical use. You assume all risks arising from any use of Pre-Release Software in any workflow.
5. Updates to Pre-Release Software may alter or remove functionality, reset preferences, reassign shortcuts, change telemetry defaults, invalidate settings, and render previously created, imported, exported, or configured materials incompatible or unusable.
6. The Developer does not guarantee that any data, settings, preferences, imports, exports, scripts, toolbar definitions, action mappings, or other materials associated with Pre-Release Software will be preserved, migrated, or remain compatible between builds or with any future release.
7. The Developer is under no obligation to provide support, maintenance, service levels, response times, bug fixes, or compatibility updates for any Pre-Release Software.
8. You are solely responsible for deciding whether Pre-Release Software is appropriate for your intended use, and for protecting your systems, projects, materials, and workflows before using it.
9. You must not redistribute Pre-Release Software, including installer files, package files, binaries, plugin bundles, or other delivered build artifacts, without the Developer's prior written consent.
10. Unless the Developer explicitly identifies a feature, build, material, or communication as confidential, private, or non-public, you may share screenshots, videos, and general impressions of Pre-Release Software.
11. If the Developer explicitly identifies any feature, build, material, benchmark result, comparative test, or other information relating to Pre-Release Software as confidential, private, or non-public, you must not disclose or publish it without the Developer's prior written consent, except where disclosure is required by law.
12. The Developer may limit, suspend, or terminate your access to any Pre-Release Software at any time.
4C. User Data, Backups, Restore, and Compatibility Responsibility
The Software may read, write, import, export, store, update, migrate, register, re-register, or otherwise interact with host application state, shortcuts, settings, imported materials, scripts, toolbars, presets, project-adjacent files, and other user data or workflow materials.
Accordingly:
1. You are solely responsible for maintaining complete, current, and verifiable backups, export copies, restore points, or other recovery methods for all projects, settings, shortcuts, scripts, presets, imported materials, configuration data, and any other data or materials that could be affected by the Software.
2. You must create and maintain those backups and recovery materials before installing, activating, updating, downgrading, uninstalling, migrating, or using the Software, and before using any feature that may modify, invoke, sync, import, export, or rely upon third-party or host application state.
3. You are solely responsible for keeping your data, projects, preferences, imported materials, and workflows current, compatible, recoverable, and suitable for your intended use.
4. If you choose not to maintain current backups, export copies, restore points, or compatibility checks, you accept all resulting risk of loss, corruption, incompatibility, interruption, delay, and reconfiguration effort.
5. You should test the Software on non-critical systems and duplicate or otherwise recoverable copies of projects and configuration data before relying on it in production or client work.
5. Ownership and Intellectual Property Rights
The Software, excluding Third-Party Materials and any separately licensed components, is and remains the sole property of the Developer. The Software is protected by copyright, trade mark, trade secret, and other intellectual property laws.
No title or ownership in the Software passes to you under this EULA. All rights not expressly granted are reserved by the Developer.
Any Third-Party Materials used with the Software, whether imported by you or referenced by the Software for compatibility purposes, remain the property of their respective owners.
6. Trade Marks, Compatibility References, and No Affiliation
The Software is an independent product created by the Developer.
References within the Software, its documentation, its website, or related materials to third-party products, services, technologies, file formats, or trade marks, including Adobe, After Effects, aescripts + aeplugins, KBar, and FXConsole, are used solely for identification, compatibility, interoperability, or truthful factual comparison.
Such references do not imply, and must not be interpreted as implying, any sponsorship, endorsement, approval, certification, partnership, or affiliation unless the Developer has expressly stated otherwise in writing.
Adobe's own trademark guidance permits third-party plug-in and extension developers to use Adobe trademarks in a referential manner to identify compatibility, provided the usage is truthful, non-confusing, and not suggestive of endorsement.
Simiarly, EU and UK rules permit comparative or referential use of trade marks in certain circumstances, but not in a way that is misleading, confusing, denigrating, or otherwise contrary to honest commercial practice.
Nothing in this EULA grants you any right to use the Developer's trade marks, product names, logos, or branding, or any third-party marks, except as necessary for lawful descriptive reference.
All third-party trade marks, product names, logos, and brands are the property of their respective owners.
7. Disclaimer of Warranty
USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Software is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties, guarantees, conditions, or representations of any kind, whether express, implied, statutory, or otherwise.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Developer disclaims all implied warranties or conditions, including merchantability, satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, title, quiet enjoyment, and non-infringement.
Without limiting the above, the Developer does not warrant that:
- the Software will meet your requirements or expectations;
- the Software will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, or free from defects;
- the Software will remain compatible with any version of Adobe After Effects, macOS, Windows, SBShortcutManager, Compatible Products, or any Third-Party Material;
- imported .kbar files or other Third-Party Materials will parse correctly, execute correctly, or be safe to use;
- any command, script, shortcut, preset, or action exposed through the Software will produce any particular result; or
- defects will be corrected within any particular timeframe or at all.
The Software may register or override shortcuts, communicate with helper components, invoke commands, and interact with host application state. You are responsible for testing the Software carefully before relying on it in production workflows.
Nothing in this EULA excludes any warranty or right that cannot lawfully be excluded under applicable consumer law.
8. Limitation of Liability
Nothing in this EULA excludes or limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for any other liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.
Subject to the paragraph above, to the fullest extent permitted by law, the Developer shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive loss or damage, including loss of profits, loss of revenue, loss of business, loss of goodwill, business interruption, project delay, data loss, corruption of files, or cost of replacement software or services, arising out of or in connection with the Software or this EULA.
Subject to the first paragraph of this Section 8, the Developer's total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to the Software or this EULA shall not exceed the greater of:
- the amount actually paid by you for the Software, if any; or
- GBP £10.
The limitations in this Section apply regardless of the legal theory on which a claim is based and even if a limited remedy fails of its essential purpose.
The Developer is not responsible for losses caused by Adobe After Effects, Adobe services, Authorized Distributors, third-party scripts, plug-ins, presets, .kbar files, Compatible Products when separately installed, user error, or any other external software or materials used with the Software.
9. Indemnity
To the fullest extent permitted by law, you agree to indemnify and hold harmless the Developer from any third-party claim, loss, liability, cost, or expense, including reasonable legal fees, arising from or related to:
- your unlawful use of the Software;
- your breach of this EULA; or
- your import, execution, distribution, or use of Third-Party Materials through or alongside the Software.
This Section does not require you to indemnify the Developer for the Developer's own fraud, negligence causing death or personal injury, or any matter for which indemnity cannot lawfully be imposed.
10. Term and Termination
This EULA begins when you first download, install, access, or use the Software and continues until terminated.
Your licence under this EULA terminates automatically if you materially breach this EULA.
Upon termination, you must immediately stop using the Software and delete or uninstall all copies in your possession or control.
The Developer may discontinue distributing, maintaining, or updating the Software at any time. Any such discontinuation does not by itself revoke a licence already granted under this EULA unless termination is otherwise permitted by law or caused by your breach.
Sections which by their nature should survive termination, including ownership, disclaimers, limitations of liability, indemnity, governing law, and miscellaneous terms, shall survive termination.
11. Governing Law and Jurisdiction
This EULA and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with it or the Software shall be governed by the laws of England and Wales, without regard to conflict of law rules.
The courts of England and Wales shall have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising out of or in connection with this EULA or the Software, except where mandatory consumer law gives you the right to bring proceedings in another jurisdiction.
If you are a consumer, nothing in this EULA deprives you of any mandatory protections available under the law of your country of residence.
12. Export Compliance
You agree to comply with all applicable export control and sanctions laws and regulations of the United Kingdom, the United States, the European Union, and any other relevant jurisdiction in connection with your use, transfer, or export of the Software.
13. Miscellaneous
Support and Updates. The Developer may, but is not obligated to, provide support, updates, bug fixes, feature changes, compatibility updates, or new versions of the Software. Unless the Developer expressly agrees otherwise in writing, no support commitment, response time, service level, compatibility commitment, or fix timeline applies, and this is especially so for any Pre-Release Software.
Third-Party Components. The Software may include or rely on third-party or open-source components. Those components remain subject to their own licence terms where applicable. Nothing in this EULA limits your rights under any such third-party licence.
Severability. If any provision of this EULA is held to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable, the remaining provisions shall remain in full force and effect, and the invalid provision shall be enforced to the maximum extent permitted by law.
No Waiver. A failure or delay by the Developer in exercising any right under this EULA does not waive that right.
Assignment. You may not assign or transfer this EULA or any rights under it without the Developer's prior written consent. The Developer may assign this EULA in connection with a business transfer, sale of the Software, merger, or reorganisation.
Entire Agreement. This EULA constitutes the entire agreement between you and the Developer regarding the Software and supersedes any prior or contemporaneous statements or understandings on that subject, except for any mandatory distributor terms that apply separately.
Consumer Rights. Nothing in this EULA excludes, restricts, or limits any consumer rights or remedies that cannot lawfully be excluded, restricted, or limited.
Feedback. If you provide feedback, suggestions, ideas, or feature requests relating to the Software, you grant the Developer a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free licence to use and exploit that feedback without restriction and without any obligation to you.
Headings. Headings are for convenience only and do not affect interpretation.
By downloading, installing, or using Command Frame, you acknowledge that you have read this EULA, understand it, and agree to be bound by it. If you do not agree, do not use the Software.
Updated: May 12, 2026 4:05 PM